Tourists pay to have their photographs taken holding a young animal.
Leonie informed him of the Thai law which required gibbons to be registered by the end of 1992 and that the infant gibbons at Nong Nooch were clearly too young to have been born prior to the 1992 deadline, and hence were illegally held. Macaques were kept in dirty ramshackle cages. A black gibbon was removed from a dirty empty cage and a chain put round his neck. Young men who apparently worked at the resort were tormenting the gibbon by kicking him in the face and head, as is done in Thai-style boxing. The young gibbon appeared terrified.