April 9, 2024 • 21 mins
Have you ever wondered what kind of impression a gang of feral cats would make if they prowled the corridors of power? Well, wonder no more. On this week’s episode of Weird World Variety, we take a stroll through the gardens of Mexico City's National Palace, now the official residence of 19 feline dignitaries. These cats aren't just charming the staff and tourists; they've clawed their way into government records as living fixed assets. We'll share the purr-fect story of their ascent to political prominence and what it means for the future of four-legged residents in official spaces. And if you think that's wild, wait until we track the paw prints of the gray wolves making an unexpected comeback in southern Michigan, bringing with them a whole new set of ecological and conservation conversations.
Join us as we honor the extraordinary tapestry of life, the untamed and the cherished encounters that remind us of the wild, weird, and wonderful world we share.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
that's right, we're back.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'reback.
Let's go.
How y'all feel out there?
Are you feeling good, good,good, good, good, good, good,
good, right, let's get right toit.
All right, that feels better.
How we doing, how we doing.
Welcome to Weird World Variety.
(00:41):
If you don't know this show bynow, this show brings you weird
and crazy news from around theworld and funny news from around
the world.
We put a positive spin on thenews, um, and it's just
something fun we like to do.
We like to have a little fun.
So is every buddy ready to diveinto this week's stories?
(01:02):
All right, let's go ahead anddive right in.
So this week we have a lot ofanimal news.
I don't know if you've kept upwith some of the animals lately,
but it's been going crazy.
(01:24):
I don't know if you've kept upwith some of the animals lately,
but it's been going crazy.
Um, and with the recent, Idon't know how many of you went
to, uh, see the solar eclipse.
Did, uh, did anybody go see thesolar eclipse?
Yeah, yeah.
(01:47):
So If you went to go see thesolar eclipse, it was pretty
crazy.
So it was awesome.
So, besides that and some otherthings, and them saying that
(02:20):
the world was going to horriblyend.
Um, we are still alive, yeah,so here we go.
We're going to report on someanimal news.
Here we go.
A new declaration in mexicogives 19 cats roaming the
presidential palace food andcare forever, forever.
Okay, I know it was bad, I know.
I know, I know it was bad, allright, all right.
So what's going on with thisMexico City?
(02:40):
They prowl through palacegardens, stalking pigeons and
making cameos on televised pressbriefings.
Some greet tourists at the doorwhile others a sneaky lick of
ice cream from staff.
Nineteen feral cats have freereign of Mexico's national
palace Long roaming, the lushgardens of historical colonial
(03:03):
hills, of the most iconicbuildings in the country.
They have access to every partof the palace, so they walk in
on meetings, interviews and evenwander on the camera, said
Jesus Sarius, the palaceveterinarian, as a handful of
feline friends brush against hisankles.
(03:24):
Now the palace cats have madehistory after the government of
mexico, mexican president andresmanuel lopez abrador, declared
them to be living fixed assets,the first animals in mexico to
receive this title.
(03:45):
And they have pictures here, ifyou want to see these apnewscom
slash oddities.
And there's cats literallyeverywhere.
They're resting on trees,they're going around the palace
courts like it's prettyinteresting.
The investment term fixedassets usually applies to
buildings and furniture, but byapplying it to cats, lopez
(04:09):
Avedor's government hasobligated the country's treasury
to give them food and care forthe rest of their lives, even
after the leader leaves office.
Is there, like they said, 19.
?
So is that a?
Is that a direct number or arethere more?
Because it's like can you putthat title on 19?
(04:30):
If there are more catswandering around, like, say, one
cat wanders in, does it getincluded in this special
treatment or not?
The cats are now a symbol of theNational Palace.
Just as we understand thisworld, I wouldn't understand the
National Palace without thepresence of these cats, said
(04:50):
Adriana Castillo-Roman, GeneralDirector of the National Palace
and Cultural HeritageConservancy.
We have to make sure the catsare well taken care of.
So, nestled in the heart ofmexico city, the presidential
palace has long been the seat ofmexico's executive branch, now
(05:12):
the residence of lopez arbador.
It is built upon the formerpalace of indigenous emperor
moctezuma.
Ironically, montezuma, ancientAztec culture, honor not cats,
but hairless dogs known as I'mnot even going to say this
Zolotz Quintal, who were evenburied with their masters.
(05:36):
So there you go.
Honored cats in Mexico.
We now have royal kitties inMexico.
So if you are ever at thepalace in Mexico, you might see
the royal kitties that are beingtaken care of.
That's crazy, okay.
(06:00):
First of all, how do you keeptrack of them?
So, would they?
I'm assuming no, they wouldn't.
They probably wouldn't putcollars on them.
In the pictures they don't havecollars.
So they just know which 19 catsto take care of.
I'm assuming, because otherwiseit'd be hard to like keep track
(06:20):
of.
Anyway, I hope so.
Let's hope so for their sake.
All right, here we go with thenext one.
From cats to wolves.
(06:50):
I said from cats to wolves.
There we go, there we go.
Oh my gosh, it gets me everytime.
All right, gray wolves hadn'tbeen seen in south michigan
since the 1900s.
This winter a local hunter justshot one marshall michigan an
(07:10):
animal.
A michigan hunter thought thiswas a big coyote when he shot it
in january and it has beendetermined to be a gray wolf,
the first time the species hasbeen found in southern michigan
in more than a century.
Wildlife officials say thehunters shot the wolf and
(07:32):
Calhoun County.
Let's see.
Do I have a thing for that?
What's the?
Uh, here we go.
It's a little violent, but allright.
Uh, the hunter shot a wolf inCalhoun County in the Southern
reaches of Michigan lowerpeninsula, while taking part in
(07:54):
legal coyote hunting accompaniedby a guide.
A Michigan Department ofNatural Resources said the man
said he encountered what wasinitially believed to be a large
coyote, but it weighed 84pounds, which is significant,
more than the 25 pounds to 40pounds that coyotes typically
weigh, at least the eastern ones.
(08:16):
A series of genetic tests onthe harvested animal confirmed
that it was a gray wolf, aspecies not cited in this part
of Michigan.
Since the likely exterminationof wolves from the state in the
early part of the 20th century,gray wolves are currently
(08:37):
confined almost exclusively toMichigan's Upper Peninsula.
The DNR said the few instancesof wolves being present in this
being president, being presentin the state of Lower Peninsula
in the past two decades has beenLower Peninsula's northern
(08:58):
areas.
The agency added this is anunusual case and the DNR is
actively delving into the matterto learn more about this
particular animal's originsorigins while rare instances of
wolves traversing vast distanceshave been documented documented
(09:18):
, including signs of wolves inrecent decades in michigan's
lower peninsula.
So, yeah, so this is the firsttime in a while that we've seen
a wolf this far south, I guesssince the 1900s.
Um, hide your chickens and hideyour farm animals, you know?
(09:39):
Like I don't know what to tellyou.
Uh, I'll tell you what.
If I saw a wolf, I'm definitelynot getting in his way because,
uh, it's, it's not happening,it's not happening, it's not
happening.
If you ever encounter a wolf,usually I don't know why, this
wolf in particular was by itself, but usually wolves travel in
(10:01):
packs.
So you will not see me takingon a wolf anytime soon, soon.
But for now we can say thatWait, hold on.
Now I've lost control of myshow.
What's going on?
I'm having technicaldifficulties.
(10:24):
Pardon me, everybody, pardon me.
Alright, we might have toreopen.
There we go.
I think we got it back.
I think we got it back.
Here we go.
So for now, wolves have beenseen in Michigan In other news.
(10:58):
Voodoo, doll, whoopee, cushion,denture powder what do these all
have in common?
Honestly, I don't know, but asfar as this story goes, this is
among the bizarre trash that wasplucked from New Jersey beaches
(11:22):
.
They're finally cleaning up theplace and it only took about,
I'd say, about 20 years or so.
So, alright.
So nah, I'm just joking, but Iguess a recent clean of new
jersey's beaches has found allthese weird items.
(11:45):
Let's figure out if we can findout what's going on.
Jersey shore beach season isalmost here and if last year's
any indication, it will soon betime to pack the voodoo dolls,
whoopee cushions, zip ties anddenture powder.
Those were just a few of thebizarre items plucked from the
sands of New Jersey's beacheslast year by volunteers with
(12:09):
Clean Ocean Action EnvironmentalGroup.
Man, that's a mouthful Alright,all right.
(12:29):
According to a report groupreleased on thursday, nearly 3
700 volunteers picked up anddisposed of 176 206 items along
the state's 127 mile coastline.
Many were mundane and sadlycommon, like bottle caps,
cigarettes, plastic pieces.
Then there are the oddities A50-pound bag of rice which who
(12:53):
just leaves that on a beach?
A baby Yoda doll, a severedBarbie head.
And then there was the foodfryer.
Who brings a food fryer to thebeach, much less leaves it
behind.
If I'm bringing a fryer to thebeach, I am definitely not
(13:14):
leaving that sucker on the beach, and I'll tell you that right
now.
Also left seaside were clothes,fake eyelashes and other weird
items that we are not going togo to for the sake of being
family friendly.
(13:34):
Cindy Zip is executive directorof Clean Ocean Action, which was
carried out beach sweeps at thebeginning and end of beach
season since 1985.
They've collected nearly 8.5million items of trash,
recycling what can bereprocessed.
(13:55):
She called the report a killlist of our region's worst
littering ways.
Yes, that's true.
So next time you're on a beach,ladies and gentlemen, I'm going
to say one thing I would pleaseclean up after yourself.
Like this is ridiculous.
(14:17):
I mean, the amount of crazyitems just gets crazier.
Like Like we all know better,don't we?
We're a human, we're a humanrace.
We know how to clean up afterourselves.
The fact that we'revolunteering not to do it is not
a good look on our part.
And if there's one thing that Iwant to teach my kids growing
(14:38):
up, is that when you have aparty or you make a mess, be
sure to clean up.
It's just respect.
That's all it is.
It's just respect.
Let's move on over to our laststory of the day.
All right?
(15:02):
So for our last story of theday, we have some monkey
business.
Yes, I did, I said monkeybusiness.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
No, it wasn't that funny.
It wasn't that funny.
So Thailand has a plan tocontain the monkey mayhem in the
(15:24):
popular tourist town ofLopbardi.
Lopbardi, which is Thailand.
Thai wildlife officials laidout a plan on Wednesday to bring
peace to a center central Thaicity After at least a decade of
human monkey conflict.
You ever seen, um, what's thatmovie?
(15:48):
You ever seen war of the worlds?
No, not war of the worlds, I'msorry um, planet of the Apes,
something like that.
Anyway, the Makki I don't knowhow to say this.
Y'all, you're going to have tobear with me.
(16:09):
The Makkakes that roam Lopburiare a symbol of local culture
and a major tourist draw, butafter years of dangerous
encounters with residents andvisitors and several failed
attempts to bring peace withpopulation controls, local
people and businesses have hadenough.
(16:30):
I would too.
If you had monkeys messing yourstuff up all the time and you
weren't allowed to do anything,I'd be ticked.
The monkeys frequently try tosnatch food from humans,
sometimes resulting in tusslesthat can leave people with
scratches and other injuries.
But outrage grew in March whena woman dislocated her knee
(16:50):
after a monkey pulled her offher feet in an effort to grab
food and another man was knockedoff a motorcycle by a hungry
monkey.
Hungry monkey, there we go.
Authorities hope to round upsome 2,500 urban monkeys and
place them in massive enclosures, said Athapol I don't know
(17:12):
their last name the directorgeneral of the Department of
National Parks, wildlife andPlant Conservation.
The Department of NationalParks, wildlife and Plant
Conservation.
They'll work with wildlifeexperts to find a way for a
limited number of monkeys tostay at liberty in the city.
I don't want humans to have tohurt monkeys and I don't want
monkeys to have to hurt humans,he told reporters during a news
(17:33):
conference in Bangkok.
An official monkey-catchingcampaign was launched this week,
prioritizing more aggressivealpha males.
It has caught 37 monkeys so far, most of whom have been placed
and put under the care ofwildlife authorities in the
(17:55):
neighboring province of Saraburi, while others were sent to the
Loburi Zoo.
Officials said that they planto capture the rest of the
monkeys once the enclosures arecomplete, especially those in
residential areas.
Separate cages will be preparedfor different troops of monkeys
to prevent them from fighting.
(18:16):
Athapul said he expects thefirst phase of the operation to
start within weeks and believesthe huge cages will be able to
contain thousands of them andwill solve the problem very
quickly.
The monkeys are a symbol of theprovince north of Bangkok, where
the ancient Three PagodasTemple celebrates an annual
(18:38):
monkey buffet festival, andthey're commonly seen throughout
the city.
Makakes are classified as aprotected species under
Thailand's wildlife conservationlaw, so their idea is to kind
of control, like not necessarilycontrol the population, but
(18:58):
also kind of control like wherethey're at and how many get to
stay in the city, which, to me,if you're not trying to hurt the
monkeys in any way and you'retrying to find a solution,
that's probably the closestthing to a solution that you're
going to get without having to,you know, take down the
(19:21):
population of monkeys oranything would.
That would probably be the bestway to do it, and also, when
you have wildlife expertslooking after them, it's also
better and you don't have thepublic upset at you for, uh, you
know, controlling thepopulation.
So I can understand why thiswould be the solution for this
(19:44):
particular case.
Um, yeah, let me know what youguys thought about this week's
weird news and remember we havea facebook, we have an instagram
and a youtube.
Just find us at Weird WorldVariety with Matt and Jesse.
So, from all of us at the WWVuntil next time, stay weird
(20:09):
everybody.
Let's get out of here.
(20:48):
Oh, you can't do this to me.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'msorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
(21:11):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
.
It's a shame, isn't it?
You can't give everything tosomeone else.
that's right, we're back.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'reback.
Let's go.
How y'all feel out there?
Are you feeling good, good,good, good, good, good, good,
good, right, let's get right toit.
All right, that feels better.
How we doing, how we doing.
Welcome to Weird World Variety.
(00:41):
If you don't know this show bynow, this show brings you weird
and crazy news from around theworld and funny news from around
the world.
We put a positive spin on thenews, um, and it's just
something fun we like to do.
We like to have a little fun.
So is every buddy ready to diveinto this week's stories?
(01:02):
All right, let's go ahead anddive right in.
So this week we have a lot ofanimal news.
I don't know if you've kept upwith some of the animals lately,
but it's been going crazy.
(01:24):
I don't know if you've kept upwith some of the animals lately,
but it's been going crazy.
Um, and with the recent, Idon't know how many of you went
to, uh, see the solar eclipse.
Did, uh, did anybody go see thesolar eclipse?
Yeah, yeah.
(01:47):
So If you went to go see thesolar eclipse, it was pretty
crazy.
So it was awesome.
So, besides that and some otherthings, and them saying that
(02:20):
the world was going to horriblyend.
Um, we are still alive, yeah,so here we go.
We're going to report on someanimal news.
Here we go.
A new declaration in mexicogives 19 cats roaming the
presidential palace food andcare forever, forever.
Okay, I know it was bad, I know.
I know, I know it was bad, allright, all right.
So what's going on with thisMexico City?
(02:40):
They prowl through palacegardens, stalking pigeons and
making cameos on televised pressbriefings.
Some greet tourists at the doorwhile others a sneaky lick of
ice cream from staff.
Nineteen feral cats have freereign of Mexico's national
palace Long roaming, the lushgardens of historical colonial
(03:03):
hills, of the most iconicbuildings in the country.
They have access to every partof the palace, so they walk in
on meetings, interviews and evenwander on the camera, said
Jesus Sarius, the palaceveterinarian, as a handful of
feline friends brush against hisankles.
(03:24):
Now the palace cats have madehistory after the government of
mexico, mexican president andresmanuel lopez abrador, declared
them to be living fixed assets,the first animals in mexico to
receive this title.
(03:45):
And they have pictures here, ifyou want to see these apnewscom
slash oddities.
And there's cats literallyeverywhere.
They're resting on trees,they're going around the palace
courts like it's prettyinteresting.
The investment term fixedassets usually applies to
buildings and furniture, but byapplying it to cats, lopez
(04:09):
Avedor's government hasobligated the country's treasury
to give them food and care forthe rest of their lives, even
after the leader leaves office.
Is there, like they said, 19.
?
So is that a?
Is that a direct number or arethere more?
Because it's like can you putthat title on 19?
(04:30):
If there are more catswandering around, like, say, one
cat wanders in, does it getincluded in this special
treatment or not?
The cats are now a symbol of theNational Palace.
Just as we understand thisworld, I wouldn't understand the
National Palace without thepresence of these cats, said
(04:50):
Adriana Castillo-Roman, GeneralDirector of the National Palace
and Cultural HeritageConservancy.
We have to make sure the catsare well taken care of.
So, nestled in the heart ofmexico city, the presidential
palace has long been the seat ofmexico's executive branch, now
(05:12):
the residence of lopez arbador.
It is built upon the formerpalace of indigenous emperor
moctezuma.
Ironically, montezuma, ancientAztec culture, honor not cats,
but hairless dogs known as I'mnot even going to say this
Zolotz Quintal, who were evenburied with their masters.
(05:36):
So there you go.
Honored cats in Mexico.
We now have royal kitties inMexico.
So if you are ever at thepalace in Mexico, you might see
the royal kitties that are beingtaken care of.
That's crazy, okay.
(06:00):
First of all, how do you keeptrack of them?
So, would they?
I'm assuming no, they wouldn't.
They probably wouldn't putcollars on them.
In the pictures they don't havecollars.
So they just know which 19 catsto take care of.
I'm assuming, because otherwiseit'd be hard to like keep track
(06:20):
of.
Anyway, I hope so.
Let's hope so for their sake.
All right, here we go with thenext one.
From cats to wolves.
(06:50):
I said from cats to wolves.
There we go, there we go.
Oh my gosh, it gets me everytime.
All right, gray wolves hadn'tbeen seen in south michigan
since the 1900s.
This winter a local hunter justshot one marshall michigan an
(07:10):
animal.
A michigan hunter thought thiswas a big coyote when he shot it
in january and it has beendetermined to be a gray wolf,
the first time the species hasbeen found in southern michigan
in more than a century.
Wildlife officials say thehunters shot the wolf and
(07:32):
Calhoun County.
Let's see.
Do I have a thing for that?
What's the?
Uh, here we go.
It's a little violent, but allright.
Uh, the hunter shot a wolf inCalhoun County in the Southern
reaches of Michigan lowerpeninsula, while taking part in
(07:54):
legal coyote hunting accompaniedby a guide.
A Michigan Department ofNatural Resources said the man
said he encountered what wasinitially believed to be a large
coyote, but it weighed 84pounds, which is significant,
more than the 25 pounds to 40pounds that coyotes typically
weigh, at least the eastern ones.
(08:16):
A series of genetic tests onthe harvested animal confirmed
that it was a gray wolf, aspecies not cited in this part
of Michigan.
Since the likely exterminationof wolves from the state in the
early part of the 20th century,gray wolves are currently
(08:37):
confined almost exclusively toMichigan's Upper Peninsula.
The DNR said the few instancesof wolves being present in this
being president, being presentin the state of Lower Peninsula
in the past two decades has beenLower Peninsula's northern
(08:58):
areas.
The agency added this is anunusual case and the DNR is
actively delving into the matterto learn more about this
particular animal's originsorigins while rare instances of
wolves traversing vast distanceshave been documented documented
(09:18):
, including signs of wolves inrecent decades in michigan's
lower peninsula.
So, yeah, so this is the firsttime in a while that we've seen
a wolf this far south, I guesssince the 1900s.
Um, hide your chickens and hideyour farm animals, you know?
(09:39):
Like I don't know what to tellyou.
Uh, I'll tell you what.
If I saw a wolf, I'm definitelynot getting in his way because,
uh, it's, it's not happening,it's not happening, it's not
happening.
If you ever encounter a wolf,usually I don't know why, this
wolf in particular was by itself, but usually wolves travel in
(10:01):
packs.
So you will not see me takingon a wolf anytime soon, soon.
But for now we can say thatWait, hold on.
Now I've lost control of myshow.
What's going on?
I'm having technicaldifficulties.
(10:24):
Pardon me, everybody, pardon me.
Alright, we might have toreopen.
There we go.
I think we got it back.
I think we got it back.
Here we go.
So for now, wolves have beenseen in Michigan In other news.
(10:58):
Voodoo, doll, whoopee, cushion,denture powder what do these all
have in common?
Honestly, I don't know, but asfar as this story goes, this is
among the bizarre trash that wasplucked from New Jersey beaches
(11:22):
.
They're finally cleaning up theplace and it only took about,
I'd say, about 20 years or so.
So, alright.
So nah, I'm just joking, but Iguess a recent clean of new
jersey's beaches has found allthese weird items.
(11:45):
Let's figure out if we can findout what's going on.
Jersey shore beach season isalmost here and if last year's
any indication, it will soon betime to pack the voodoo dolls,
whoopee cushions, zip ties anddenture powder.
Those were just a few of thebizarre items plucked from the
sands of New Jersey's beacheslast year by volunteers with
(12:09):
Clean Ocean Action EnvironmentalGroup.
Man, that's a mouthful Alright,all right.
(12:29):
According to a report groupreleased on thursday, nearly 3
700 volunteers picked up anddisposed of 176 206 items along
the state's 127 mile coastline.
Many were mundane and sadlycommon, like bottle caps,
cigarettes, plastic pieces.
Then there are the oddities A50-pound bag of rice which who
(12:53):
just leaves that on a beach?
A baby Yoda doll, a severedBarbie head.
And then there was the foodfryer.
Who brings a food fryer to thebeach, much less leaves it
behind.
If I'm bringing a fryer to thebeach, I am definitely not
(13:14):
leaving that sucker on the beach, and I'll tell you that right
now.
Also left seaside were clothes,fake eyelashes and other weird
items that we are not going togo to for the sake of being
family friendly.
(13:34):
Cindy Zip is executive directorof Clean Ocean Action, which was
carried out beach sweeps at thebeginning and end of beach
season since 1985.
They've collected nearly 8.5million items of trash,
recycling what can bereprocessed.
(13:55):
She called the report a killlist of our region's worst
littering ways.
Yes, that's true.
So next time you're on a beach,ladies and gentlemen, I'm going
to say one thing I would pleaseclean up after yourself.
Like this is ridiculous.
(14:17):
I mean, the amount of crazyitems just gets crazier.
Like Like we all know better,don't we?
We're a human, we're a humanrace.
We know how to clean up afterourselves.
The fact that we'revolunteering not to do it is not
a good look on our part.
And if there's one thing that Iwant to teach my kids growing
(14:38):
up, is that when you have aparty or you make a mess, be
sure to clean up.
It's just respect.
That's all it is.
It's just respect.
Let's move on over to our laststory of the day.
All right?
(15:02):
So for our last story of theday, we have some monkey
business.
Yes, I did, I said monkeybusiness.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
No, it wasn't that funny.
It wasn't that funny.
So Thailand has a plan tocontain the monkey mayhem in the
(15:24):
popular tourist town ofLopbardi.
Lopbardi, which is Thailand.
Thai wildlife officials laidout a plan on Wednesday to bring
peace to a center central Thaicity After at least a decade of
human monkey conflict.
You ever seen, um, what's thatmovie?
(15:48):
You ever seen war of the worlds?
No, not war of the worlds, I'msorry um, planet of the Apes,
something like that.
Anyway, the Makki I don't knowhow to say this.
Y'all, you're going to have tobear with me.
(16:09):
The Makkakes that roam Lopburiare a symbol of local culture
and a major tourist draw, butafter years of dangerous
encounters with residents andvisitors and several failed
attempts to bring peace withpopulation controls, local
people and businesses have hadenough.
(16:30):
I would too.
If you had monkeys messing yourstuff up all the time and you
weren't allowed to do anything,I'd be ticked.
The monkeys frequently try tosnatch food from humans,
sometimes resulting in tusslesthat can leave people with
scratches and other injuries.
But outrage grew in March whena woman dislocated her knee
(16:50):
after a monkey pulled her offher feet in an effort to grab
food and another man was knockedoff a motorcycle by a hungry
monkey.
Hungry monkey, there we go.
Authorities hope to round upsome 2,500 urban monkeys and
place them in massive enclosures, said Athapol I don't know
(17:12):
their last name the directorgeneral of the Department of
National Parks, wildlife andPlant Conservation.
The Department of NationalParks, wildlife and Plant
Conservation.
They'll work with wildlifeexperts to find a way for a
limited number of monkeys tostay at liberty in the city.
I don't want humans to have tohurt monkeys and I don't want
monkeys to have to hurt humans,he told reporters during a news
(17:33):
conference in Bangkok.
An official monkey-catchingcampaign was launched this week,
prioritizing more aggressivealpha males.
It has caught 37 monkeys so far, most of whom have been placed
and put under the care ofwildlife authorities in the
(17:55):
neighboring province of Saraburi, while others were sent to the
Loburi Zoo.
Officials said that they planto capture the rest of the
monkeys once the enclosures arecomplete, especially those in
residential areas.
Separate cages will be preparedfor different troops of monkeys
to prevent them from fighting.
(18:16):
Athapul said he expects thefirst phase of the operation to
start within weeks and believesthe huge cages will be able to
contain thousands of them andwill solve the problem very
quickly.
The monkeys are a symbol of theprovince north of Bangkok, where
the ancient Three PagodasTemple celebrates an annual
(18:38):
monkey buffet festival, andthey're commonly seen throughout
the city.
Makakes are classified as aprotected species under
Thailand's wildlife conservationlaw, so their idea is to kind
of control, like not necessarilycontrol the population, but
(18:58):
also kind of control like wherethey're at and how many get to
stay in the city, which, to me,if you're not trying to hurt the
monkeys in any way and you'retrying to find a solution,
that's probably the closestthing to a solution that you're
going to get without having to,you know, take down the
(19:21):
population of monkeys oranything would.
That would probably be the bestway to do it, and also, when
you have wildlife expertslooking after them, it's also
better and you don't have thepublic upset at you for, uh, you
know, controlling thepopulation.
So I can understand why thiswould be the solution for this
(19:44):
particular case.
Um, yeah, let me know what youguys thought about this week's
weird news and remember we havea facebook, we have an instagram
and a youtube.
Just find us at Weird WorldVariety with Matt and Jesse.
So, from all of us at the WWVuntil next time, stay weird
(20:09):
everybody.
Let's get out of here.
(20:48):
Oh, you can't do this to me.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'msorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
(21:11):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
.
It's a shame, isn't it?
You can't give everything tosomeone else.
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