Yet another thing people probably shouldn't make animals do (to add to a growing list that includes getting married and dressing up like Michael Jackson): kickboxing.

Until two years ago, a themepark in Bangkok called Safari World held kickboxing exhibitions, using orangutans dressed in bright shorts and boxing gloves. The practice had been featured at the park for decades, and part of the show reportedly involved an organgutan dressed as a doctor attending to one of the fallen athletes. Here's a video that includes a clip of the performance.

In 2004, Thai police raided the park and seized 114 of Safari World's orangutans, after rumors surfaced that some of the animals had been smuggled into Thailand, and not bred in captivity as Safari World's owners claimed. Orangutans can only be found in the wild in Malaysia and Indonesia, and because they are an endangered species (only 27,000 are left in the wild), strict laws prohibit their being removed from those countries. DNA tests proved that 57 of them did not come from the breeding program, but had indeed been taken from someplace else.

After the raid, the animals spent two years in captivity, while the Thai government tried to decide what to do with them, and where to repatriate them. Their ordeal may finally be coming to an end, as Thailand will be meeting with officials from Malaysia and Indonesia later this week.

"During the meeting we will finally decide which country the 54 orangutans will return to," deputy chief of Thai national parks Chawann Tunhikorn was quoted as saying in a Times of London article. In the two years since the raid, three of the orangutans died.