Dozens of macaques found in deserted building
published : 17 Feb 2022 at 17:25
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Thirty macaques in bags and boxes were found in an empty building in Saraburi province police believe was used by wildlife traffickers.
Police raided the building after a passing motorist reported hearing loud animal noises as she drove by.
Police found 29 live macaques, either stuffed in plastic boxes in the living room or in bags hanging from a rope in the bathroom. Another was found dead outside the building.
Macaques are a protected wild animal.
Police said it was likely the macaques were left there by wildlife traffickers to avoid a vehicle search at a nearby police checkpoint.
The macaques were taken to a wild animal shelter in Nakhon Nayok province.
Vocabulary
- checkpoint: a place where people are stopped and questioned and vehicles are examined, especially at a border between two countries - ด่านตรวจ
- deserted: empty - ที่ถูกทิ้งให้ว่างเปล่า ร้างไป
- macaques (noun): a type of monkey that lives in Africa and Asia - ลิงแสม
- protect: to make sure that somebody/something is not harmed, injured, damaged, etc - ป้องกัน,อารักขา,คุ้มกัน
- raid: to forcefully and suddenly enter a place to catch criminals or to search for something like drugs - ใช้กำลังเข้าค้นสถานที่หรือ จับกุมคนร้าย
- shelter: a place where animals are protected - โรงเลี้ยงสัตว์, สถานที่ที่ปลอดภัยสำหรับสัตว์
- trafficker: someone in the business of buying and selling things illegally or of illegally transporting people for work in other countries or areas - ผู้ลักลอบค้าสินค้าผิดกฎหมายหรือลักลอบขายแรงงานผิดกฎหมาย
- wildlife: animals, birds, insects, etc. that are wild and live in a natural environment - สัตว์ป่า
