交通誘導をするサルMonkey directs cars like a traffic COP after learning hand signals from watching officers
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2025.02.18
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This is the amusing moment a wild monkey directed cars like a traffic cop - after picking up the hand signals from watching officers.
The macaque had climbed down from the roadside trees and established its own road checkpoint at the Khao Yai National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Footage shows the primate standing upright and holding its ground as a silver SUV with the blinker on tried to pass by.
The monkey, unfazed by the cars that normally drive through the forested area, then stuck out its arm as if to redirect oncoming cars.
The SUV driver obediently followed the simian traffic enforcer and drove around it during the astonishing scenes on January 19.
Amazed onlooker Pusacha Saetan said: 'It's funny to see a monkey ordering humans around. It must have learned the hand gesture from traffic police in the area.'
The busy route goes through Thailand's vast national forest, which is home to 40 per cent of the country's species of wildlife. On busy weekends and public holidays, traffic police are deployed to manage the flow of cars.
Monkeys are spread throughout the area. Officials are even trying to control their population in urban areas like Lopburi, where they are fed by tourists and locals. The animals frequently raid homes, businesses, and temples, causing damage and sometimes attacking pedestrians.
Efforts to manage the issue include sterilisation programs and creating 'monkey sanctuaries' to reduce human-wildlife conflict.
Khao Yai National Park was established in 1962 as Thailand's first national park. It is the third-largest wildlife sanctuary in the country, covering 2,200 square kilometres of rainforest and grasslands that stretch across parts of Prachinburi, Saraburi, and Nakhon Nayok provinces.
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