Volunteers in Nepal are feeding thousands of animals that would have been left to starve after coronavirus stay at home orders cut off their usual source of food

• Thousands of animals at a Hindu temple in Nepal are being fed by volunteers, according to the Associated Press.
• The animals, which consist of cows, monkeys, and pigeons are normally fed by devotees who visit the temple.
• Nepal has been under lockdown since March 24.
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Hundreds of cows, monkeys, and pigeons could have been left to starve at one of Nepal's most revered Hindu temples, but volunteers signed up to keep the animals fed as usual visitors are ordered to shelter at home as a measure to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the Associated Press reported.

Thousands of devotees that visit the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu and normally feed the animals, according to the AP.

Now a small number of guards and volunteers feed the animals so they won't perish in the midst of the pandemic.