A foreign correspondent in Thailand must accept that stories apt to attract the most interest from Western readers must revolve around one of the three Ps: protests, prostitutes or pachyderms. 

Were the phrasing more graceful, I might force a fourth subject onto that trio: perverse animal performances.

If you long to see kickboxing orangutans or elephants playing soccer — or how about elephants transformed into pandas? — then your paradise awaits in Thailand.

Without wasting your time further, I give you a chimpanzee bottle-feeding a baby tiger at zoo in — where else? — the outskirts of Bangkok.