News from Thailand indicates that monkeys were illegally taken from a national park to be sold on the black market. Over half of the monkeys in the illegal shipment died (36/65). Though it does not say as much in the article, the only black markets for long-tailed macaques are the breeding and export of monkeys for vivisection.
From the article:
BANGKOK, Thailand: Police found three dozen macaque monkeys dead in the back of a truck, and arrested two men who admitted to drugging the animals and stuffing them into sacks in order to smuggle them, authorities said Sunday.
Police stopped the truck at a checkpoint in Thailand's northeastern Amnat Charoen province. An inspection revealed the truck was carrying 65 monkeys, known as crab-eating macaques, of which 36 were dead, police Capt. Pitak Chompupeun.
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