Monkeys kill Deputy Mayor of Delhi
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Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor
Monkeys in India
Delhi has long struggled to cope with the marauding monkeys
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
The High Court demanded the city find an answer to the problem last year.
Solution elusive
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.
Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.
Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.
Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm
This is just sad.
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shocked -
See, even the monkeys know how to protest.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat. -
Originally posted by eagle:See, even the monkeys know how to protest.
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Revenge.
The retribution will be serious for the monkeys.
Revenge is never good. -
giga is one of the monkeys
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wellOriginally posted by mancha:Revenge.
The retribution will be serious for the monkeys.
Revenge is never good.
the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman -
They can export the monkeys to China or bring in lots of PRCs. Most likely the monkeys will turn into a major food source
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Originally posted by elindra:They can export the monkeys to China or bring in lots of PRCs. Most likely the monkeys will turn into a major food source
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stupid. they revere the monkeys as hanumans manifestation and leave them alone, and when that happens, the monkeys go crazy, then they cant bear to kill the monkeys, then the whole cycle is repeated
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There's actually a the same problem at MacRitchie.
Thou not as serious, but the monkeys will run about digging stuff in the dustbin at the bus-stop, littering all over.
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then they nvr kena fine.Originally posted by vIn.Warrior:There's actually a the same problem at MacRitchie.
Thou not as serious, but the monkeys will run about digging stuff in the dustbin at the bus-stop, littering all over. -
In that case, the monkeys who killed Deputy Mayor of Delhi shld be killed too.Originally posted by seotiblizzard:then they nvr kena fine.
Eliminate them all.