Another shot from my trip to Trang, Thailand.  On returning from a boat trip to Koh Libong my friends and I were greeted by the resort owner who was shouting "quick, quick come and see the coconut show!".  Intrigued to know what a "coconut show" was (I've witnessed fire shows, king-cobra shows and others here in Thailand, but never a coconut show) we quickly followed to find three men with three monkeys on long leashes.  The monkeys were climbing to the top of the palms and, with their hands, twisting the coconuts until they fell to the ground.  I guess they had been working for about an hour as the ground was littered with coconuts.  After the last coconut had fallen the resort owner gave a few hundred baht (~$6) to the handlers and that was that.

It was getting late and the light was failing, so the only shot I was able to get was this one.  The expression of the monkey looking-up at his "handler" is rather sad.  I'm not going to comment on animal welfare here in Thailand, not right now at least.

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