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Mo' monkeys, mo' problems

TIM ALBONE

Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 9:37 PM EDT 22/12/07

Aggressive primates caused Delhi's deputy mayor's death, and India's animal-control experts are fighting back ...Read the full article

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  1. A Wong from Montreal, Canada writes: Sounds like this is just nature fighting back. I mean, if you destroy their habitat, where else do you think they'd go?
  2. Open Mike from Vancouver, Canada writes: Sweet thunderin' rhesus, bye, that's a lot of monkeys....

    Let's see, stealing, vandalism, swarming, putting the bite on people and just acting like jerks generally. Gee, remind you of any other species?
  3. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes: A good biological story of inter-species competition!

    Perhaps we can learn a lot from these creatures.

    Is this just ONE example of one species struggling to survive against the odds as its 'dominant' competitor gain ascendancy?
  4. Keith who is from Ottawa, Canada writes: And we complain abut racoons. At least racoons won't fling you from your balcony.
  5. s haugie from UT, Canada writes: I live in Northern India and the rhesus macaques can cause a lot of damage, in particular in my neighborhood. They haven't flung anyone from the balcony, at least not yet. They think your purse is your tiffin (lunchbox) and will try to steal it from you, break branches off trees, get into the trash, pull plants from your garden and jump from rooftop to rooftop causing problems with whatever you have whatever you have up there which is mostly water tanks. One person I know had a monkey jump from her balcony onto the hood of her car. It left a huge dent. Plus, they can be aggressive. Think of racoons with opposable thumbs and you get an idea of what damage they can do. But, from a distance, they can be quite entertaining.
  6. Alberto Bayo from Canada writes: I worked for a Vet one year and there was a monkey with us for six weeks. All it did was wreck stuff and masturbate...non-stop.
  7. Chris E. from vancouver, Canada writes: Being defenestrated by monkeys is a terrible way to go.
  8. anonymouse Z from Canada writes: I wonder how much of it is caused by the refusal of Indian public to cull the animals - I have been to India and seen the dogs, cows and monkeys all over the roads, even in large cities. I got shocked looks when I asked why these animals were not taken off the streets and killed. They don't understand the concept of humane culling.
  9. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes: Is there an analogy of monkeys with their human cousins?

    How about daylight robbery and snatching people's purses? And waht about beating up people bringing glad tidings for the festive season?
  10. John James from Canada writes: The problem is religion - Hindu fundamentalists will not allow animals such as cows and monkeys to be harmed. They worship the cow and revere monkeys because of the monkey-god Hanuman. I don't think these problems exist in non-Hindu regions of India (or Pakistan).
  11. gordon davies from Victoria B.C., Canada writes: Bad enough to be attacked by these flee bags , but the stinking waste left must make the place into one great stinking open toilet.
  12. Bill Needle from Canada writes: Alberto Bayo from Canada writes: I worked for a Vet one year and there was a monkey with us for six weeks. All it did was wreck stuff and masturbate...non-stop.

    What was the cure Alberto? I only ask because we have a new guy in our office who has the same problem and the boss isn't gonna do anything about it.
  13. Laura Dover from Calgary, Canada writes: Quite different from here, where we kill anything that presents a minor nuisance.
  14. CD W from Canada writes: Trank darts and burlap bags! That would seem to be a middle ground for the monkey god types, hey I for one welcome the monkeys, but not the self abusing types!
  15. John James from Canada writes: Laura Dover - that is a good observation. We have killed off and displaced so much wildlife that we are becoming disconnected from nature instead of trying to live with nature.
  16. The Bubble from Canada writes: There has to be a Bollywood movie here somewhere

    What if they train the monkey's to be their servants and then maybe they would learn our language and oh no... then they'll take over... get your filthy hands off me you damn dirty ape...
    Stupid monkeys
  17. Harbinger from Out West from Prince George, Canada writes: Africa has an Aids problem. Just a matter of time before parts of India get themselves a little uncontrollable rabies epidemic. That, they can blame on their "Gods".
  18. martha stewart from Canada writes: Laura Dover from Calgary, Canada writes: "Quite different from here, where we kill anything that presents a minor nuisance."

    Forgetting the coyotes in Calgary aren't you?

  19. Orest Zarowsky from Toronto, Canada writes: Well, I am relieved to see that none of the pundits here, especially the ones from Alberta, have seen fit to address the issue of habitat destruction. As in: where do you bozos - here and in India - think the monkeys are going to go when you cut down and pave over the forests they live in? Especially if you think they are gods. Say, if they are gods, why the failure to preserve the habitat? More religious hypocracy and drivel. OOPS.
  20. The Bubble from Canada writes: why can't monkeys and men live in peace?
    I actually hate monkeys, my buddies sister had a spider monkey when I was ten and it scratched my friend pretty bad once, vicious little thing, then it pinched a loaf on my friends car hood and wiped it all over, my freinds dad went ballistic, it was pretty entertaining. the monkey got loose and climbed a telephone pole outside the house.
    I've tried to imagine the man who first contracted aids' first sexual encounter with a monkey, I've never seen anything as bizarre as my own thoughts about this.

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