Kind locals are feeding thousands of monkeys that have been going hungry due to a drop in tourists during the COVID-19 pandemic.<br /><br />The primates would normally survive on food fed to them from tourists. However, visitor numbers have plummeted after non-residents were banned from entering the country two months ago amid coronavirus restrictions. <br /><br />Locals are now helping the monkeys. Footage from May 10 shows thousand monkeys in Phang Nga, southern Thailand being fed tasty portions of boiled rice soaked in coconut milk.<br /><br />Wildlife lover Kullida Boonsri said she would help the animals as much as she could afford to but pleaded with the government to take care of the wild primates. <br /><br />She said: "The monkeys are usually happy because they're fed fruits by the tourists but since the tourists have gone, they were left starving.<br /><br />"My friend and I fed them by mixing coconut residue mixed them with rice, that has been donated by other residents.<br /><br />"However, the supplies to feed the monkeys are running low because there are so many of them to feed.<br /><br />"We think the government should take action to stop the monkeys from starving.''
