Water buffaloes participate in a race in Chonburi on July 21, 2019. Sloshing across a muddy field with men sprinting behind them, prized water buffaloes blow past cheering spectators in eastern Thailand on July 21 in a rare display of bovine speed. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Men play a game of sepak takraw in Bangkok, Thailand on July 7, 2019. Sepak takraw use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. (Photo by Candida N.G./AFP Photo)





Veterinarians perform an autopsy on a dead Sperm whale at Lanta island in Krabi province, Thailand, July 3, 2019. (Photo by Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Reuters)





Fishermen try to tow a dead Bryde's whale in Surat Thani province, Thailand on June 19, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A British Bulldog (L) waits to be groomed at a specialised pet shop in Bangkok on August 18, 2019. According to market researches in Thailand consumers are increasingly treating their pets as part of the family driven by young adults who consider owning a pet akin to having a child. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





Veiled Thai women take a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach enjoying Eid al-Fitr on June 5, 2019 in Pattani, Thailand. Today is Eid al-Fitr, or Festival of Breaking the Fast, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)





Newly ordained young hill tribe Buddhist novice monks sip water during a mass Buddhist monk ordination ceremony for hill tribe men at Wat Benchamabophit, also known as the Marble Temple in Bangkok, Thailand, 14 July 2019. A total of 168 hill tribe men including young boys were to be ordained as Buddhist monks and novices in the annual mass ordination ceremony to mark the three-month Buddhist Lent which this year begins on 17 July. For the duration of the Buddhist Lent, monks remain in one location, typically in a monastery or on temple grounds, where they engage in meditation and prayer, while laypeople choose to observe Lent by giving up meat, alcohol, and perform other ascetic practices. In Thailand, a Buddhist man is expected to become a monk during some period of his life. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





People burn coffin donation receipts in prayer at the Ruamkatanyu Foundation next to Wat Hua Lamphong temple in Bangkok, Thailand, 27 August 2019. Adjacent to the popular Royal Buddhist temple Wat Hua Lamphong is the Ruamkatanyu Foundation where devotees earn merits by sponsoring coffins. The Ruamkatanyu Foundation collects donations for coffins, destined for those without relatives or unable to afford one. Usually hospitals contact the Ruamkatanyu Foundation to request the coffins. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Buddhist monk sits next to used plastic bags at Khung Bang Kachao Urban Forest and beach collected as part of the Trash Hero initiative in Bangkok on August 25, 2019. Hundreds of people gathered on the bank of the Chao Praya river to clean it from the tons of plastic waste carried by the current. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





Motorists drive through a flooded street after heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand on June 7, 2019. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP Photo)





A handout photo made available by the Hook31 Yasothorn Rescue Volunteer shows Thai rescue workers helping an ostrich from a flooded area at Kham Khuean Kaeo District of Yasothon Province, northern Thailand, 03 September 2019. Floods triggered by tropical storm Podul caused damage in several provinces in Northern and Northeastern regions of the country affecting thousands of people. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Hook31 Yasothorn Rescue)





Teeraphong Meesat, 29, known as teacher Bally applies make up before his English class at the Prasartratprachakit School in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, July 10, 2019. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Thitirat Keowa-ram, Bangkok's street sweeper, carries her 1-year old poodle-shih tzu mix breed as she works at a street in Bangkok, Thailand on August 28, 2019. (Photo by Jiraporn Kuhakan/Reuters)





Mitree Chitinunda gets a haircut in the shape of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, to mark King's 67th birthday, in a barbershop at Bangkok, Thailand on July 28, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo, known as “snake wrangler”, shows a copperhead rat snake which he caught, at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand on August 7, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





In this Sunday, August 25, 2019, photo, Muslim villagers load the body of Abdulloh Esomuso on the truck to a cemetery in Pattani southern of Thailand. Esomuso was arrested July 20, 2019, on suspicion of being a separatist insurgent and found unconscious the next day in his cell at an army base in the deep south province of Pattani. He died on Sunday, Aug. 25, with his family and human rights groups seeking an investigation of whether his death was due to torture. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





This undated photo posted Monday, August 26, 2019, on the Thailand Royal Office website shows Major General Sineenatra Wongvajirabhakdi, the royal noble consort of King Maha Vajiralongkorn. She was bestowed the title of Chao Khun Phra Sineenatra Bilasakalayani by King Maha Vajiralongkorn during a ceremony in late July. In May the king named another woman Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya as the queen of Thailand. (Photo by Thailand Royal Office via AP Photo)





A young boy feeds carrots to a goat at the Thailand Pet Expo 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand, 30 May 2019. The four-day expo caters to pet owners' needs and gathers a variety of vendors offering pet products ranging from food and medicines, to grooming equipment, toys, or carriages. The Thailand Pet Expo 2019 runs from 30 May to 02 June. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA/EFE)





A novice Buddhist monk collects alms in a marketplace in Mae Sai, bordering Thailand and Myanmar, on June 14, 2019. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A family prays near the ruins of a headless Buddha statue, which has resurfaced in a dried-up dam due to drought, in Lopburi, Thailand on August 1, 2019. Thousands are flocking to see the Buddhist temple exposed after drought drove water levels to record lows in a dam reservoir where it had been submerged. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)