Monkey war III continues

City at wits' end over 'Simian menace' - 25 Oct 2007 - NZ Herald: World / International News

In certain parts of India the problem has become such that the authorities have been forced to undertake special steps to confront what the local papers call "the Simian menace".

In Delhi, officials have even constructed a "monkey prison" in the south of the city where animals that are captured on the streets of the capital are put in cages and then delivered to the walled sanctuary and released.

Some local communities have got together and hired men with larger, more aggressive langur monkeys to scare away the rhesus monkeys. Several years ago the federal Government even put some of the langurs on its payroll, paying them around $19 a month in bananas to patrol the areas around some of the government departments. The authority that runs the city's recently opened subway also resorted to hiring langurs to clear away the smaller monkeys who were following commuters on to the trains.

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