Monkeys go bananas as Thai town offers simian feast

It is a feast fit for a monkey king. On Sunday, the central Thai town of Lopburi put on a five-star banquet for its hundreds of macaque inhabitants, sparking a mass simian food fight.

Lopburi has been laying on an annual feast - part merit-making tradition and part unabashed tourist attraction - for its monkeys since the late 1980s.

This year's feast featured a smorgasbord of fruit that was quickly demolished by the hungry guests, who squawked and tussled as they gulped down their feast, much to the delight of distantly related human onlookers armed with cameras.