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 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: Planet of Apes? ....... It's started....... |
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| Quote: | NEW DELHI (AP) - Several legislators criticized the Indian government in Parliament on Wednesday for failing to control the growing number of marauding monkeys in the country's capital, a news report said.
Battalions of simians have been damaging trees, uprooting plants, snatching food from children and terrifying passers-by, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted K. Malaisamy of the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam as saying.
"In the name of protection of monkeys, we cannot afford to be silent spectators to this perennial problem," Malaisamy said in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, according to PTI.
As forest cover around New Delhi has declined, the city has struggled with a growing monkey population. Government buildings, temples and many residential neighbourhoods are overrun by hundreds of rhesus macaques.
On Wednesday, Ramdeo Bhandary, another legislator, joined Malaisamy in asking the Environment and Forest Ministry to do something quickly to end the menace.
There was no immediate response from the government.
Last year, the Delhi High Court reprimanded authorities in the Indian capital for failing to stop monkeys from terrifying residents and asked them to find a permanent solution to the monkey menace.
Part of the problem is that devout Hindus believe monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god Hanuman and feed them with bananas and peanuts, which encourages them to frequent public places.
Over the years, city authorities have used monkey catchers who use langurs - a larger and fiercer kind of monkey - to scare or catch the macaques, but the problem persists.
The Supreme Court has ordered wildlife authorities to transport some 300 macaques from New Delhi to the dense jungles of Madhya Pradesh state. |
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