What you need to know to avoid injury ...

This cute little monkey, the tourist areas of Thailand roam are dangerous!

Macaques

Thailand is home to many different species of primates, but the most common monkey can be seen during the visit is a macaque (pronounced "my kak"), a small animal, gray or gray-brown, which usually hangs in trees or other foliage , The average Thai monkey is about two meters high and about 15 pounds, but just because they are small, does not mean they are not hurt.

In fact, can be very aggressive Thailand macaque. According to a recent report about 600 people were only monkeys island Phi Phi Hospital treated after the attacks last year. The authorities have not yet installed warning signs for people to be careful, but do not stop incidents.

Not feed the animals!

In certain tourist areas, such as in the round of group visits Maya Bay on Phi Phi Islands Monkey Beach, visitors are encouraged to feed peanuts animals, bananas and other snacks, and macaques are used to food from get people often tear from hands of the people, take the for them or act aggressively when they do not come. Those who turn away (often in fear) or try out which foods to avoid are sometimes scratched or bitten. The sad thing is that these monkeys of tourists and tour guides who think it's cute and fun to feed wild animals get used manually. If your guide is bananas to the monkeys, do not participate.

It's also fun to see the monkeys remote. If you choose to feed the monkeys, do not let young children to interact with them and throwing food to them, instead of waiting until I hold hands.

Do not touch it!

Another way the tourists tried in trouble with these monkeys to touch or pet baby monkeys. These primates are very protective of their young. Not approach or try to touch a young monkey and not to approach a mother monkey with a baby nursing. The macaques are social beings and come to the defense of others. If you are bitten or scratched, you should get a tetanus and clean the wound.

Cutest Horror Stories

On Thai macaques are not responsible for all the ills. In Ubud, Bali Forest macaques to rob tourists are known, all the time, and despite the loss of his sunglasses may seem like a funny memory, so that many tourists visited Indonesia a hospital after the attack. And Delhi, India, attacked a herd of monkeys, the deputy mayor of the city in 2007. When he tried to fight, he fell from his balcony and died later of his injuries.