This video starts out in the safety of Pattaya Terminal 21 until we finally discover why zoos warn tourists to Beware of the Monkeys.

Mali’s three year old is a trooper, walking with us through Terminal 21. Then she hikes through Si Racha’s Khao Kheow zoo. She doesn’t cry or complain. Ahd then a monkey attacks. Leaping 1.5 meters straight up in the air. Covering Mali and her daughter’s face. Luckily the monkey does not bite. It’s after food, thinking it’s in one of the two bags Mali is carrying.

Mali’s got her wallet in one of the bags. I think the wallet contains her ID and that monkey is batting the bags around on the ground. I run up to the monkey but it’s not backing off. My first thought is to kick the monkey as if it were a soccer ball. But I don’t. I scream at it as if I were an animal. The monkey backs off just long enough for Crazy Czech and Mali to grab the bags off the ground. Then the monkey comes at us.