Piano for Wild Macaques in Temple, Lopburi, Thailand

Our projects with wild macaques in Music for Monkeys playlist: The Fine Arts Department of Lopburi allowed us to bring our piano at Prang Sam Yod, a Khmerstyle temple dating from 11th, 12th century. The temple nicknamed Monkey Temple is home to huge number of wild macaques. The temple macaque gang are more forward, mischievous and occasionally aggressive to humans than the macaque gang that live at the abandoned cinema nearby. The cinema macaques like to keep their own company, are peaceloving and comparatively shy around humans. We discovered the reaction of both macaque gangs to piano music was very different.