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In a video circulating online, hoards of monkeys can be seen chasing one of their own holding the solo banana. As they loudly cry, the animals then jump the single banana-carrying monkey while others fight over the fruit.

Onlookers appear shocked at the aggressiveness.

“I think the monkeys were very, very hungry,” said Sasaluk Rattanachai, who filmed the video of the primate attack.

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“There’s normally a lot of tourists here to feed the monkeys but now there are not as many, because of the coronavirus … They went crazy for a single piece of food. I’ve never seen them this aggressive.”

Rattanachai said the monkeys “looked more like wild dogs.”

Divided by a train track, the temple and city monkeys normally do not interact with each other. But hunger may have led the temple macaques to the city in search of food.

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The Daily Mail reported monkeys living in other parts of Thailand were going hungry after tourism plummeted 44% thanks to the coronavirus. As of Thursday, there have been 70 reported cases of COVID-19 in Thailand.