Thai wildlife officials rounded up 80 monkeys from a village on the outskirts of Bangkok on Monday to relocate them after complaints from villagers.

The director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Nipol Chotiban, said the monkeys had been "entering homes and rummaging through stuff and people's fridges."

The long-tailed macaques are being moved to wildlife conservation centres in Thailand's Ratchaburi province.

One local resident Narong Therdsong said people were looking forward to being able to hang out washing and grow vegetables without trouble from monkeys.