Many in India worship them, for many they are just a pest: monkeys. The animals walk in groups through the streets. Before the G20 summit in New Delhi on 9/10. In September, the Indian capital launched a new effort to tackle the problem. Specially trained ‘monkey men’ are even deployed for this purpose.
These ‘monkey men’ must prevent marauding rhesus monkeys from causing trouble and destroying the decorative flower arrangements at next week’s G20 summit.
30 “Monkey Wallahs” are used
The city council hired more than 30 monkey wallahs to mimic the call of the aggressive langurs, the natural predators of the lesser rhesus monkeys.
“We can’t remove the monkeys from their natural habitat, so we put together a team of 30 to 40 men to chase the monkeys away,” Satish Upadhyay, deputy chairman of the city council, told AFP.
Life-size langur dummies are set up
The “monkey men” should be stationed in the delegation hotels and all places where monkeys are regularly sighted. In addition, life-size langur dummies are set up to frighten the rhesus monkeys.
Widespread plague
Monkeys are revered in the Hindu religion, but in India they are a widespread nuisance, wreaking havoc on gardens, damaging roofs and even attacking people for food. For decades, men with trained langurs patrolled the streets of New Delhi to scare off rhesus macaques. This practice has now been abolished for animal welfare reasons.
Source: Krone

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