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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
News Delhi’s Monkey Free Zones Are A Failure
Posted by on Wed, Oct 24 at 11:16 AM
And you think downtown Portland has “livability problems”:
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by. [..] One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests. But the problem has persisted. “
MONKEY: Attacked Indian politician…
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Anyone else see that episode of Dirty Jobs where the whole crew was under siege for two days because of one angry monkey?
Monkeys = no joke!
Well, the trouble with Monkey-Free zones is that the damn monkeys take the cite and eat it. They then find some dung and fling it at you.
Damn scofflaw monkeys.
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It is unfair to focus exclusion efforts on Rhesus monkeys alone. The fact that the langurs are tolerated, and their violence even promoted, show that the city authorites are engaging in inappropriate species discrimination.
While it is unfortunate that the Deputy Mayor was killed in an encounter with the Rhesus monkeys, it is unfair to judge the entire species by one unfortunate incident.
I believe the Mayor should convene a committe to study the perceived problem and should include representatives of all of the primate species on the committee. An independent statistical report can then be produced. The final report can then be flung at the city council.