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Tourists, workers terrorized -- by monkeys
ANDREW WANG
Associated Press
NEW DELHI - In a capital city where cows roam the streets and elephants plod along in the bus lanes, it's no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys.
But the officials who work there are fed up. They've been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows.
The Supreme Court has stepped in, decreeing that New Delhi should be a monkey-free city after citizens filed a lawsuit demanding protection from the animals.
Easier said than done. A past initiative to scare off the army of Rhesus macaques with ultrahigh frequency loudspeakers didn't work. A plan to deport them to distant regions has stalled because local governments refused to have them.
There's an ape patrol of fierce-looking primates called langurs, led about on leashes by keepers. But whenever a langur looms, the pink-faced, two-foot-tall hooligans simply move elsewhere on government grounds.
"Please do not feed the monkeys," implores a sign at Raisina Hill, the complex of colonnaded buildings that includes the president's residence, Parliament, and Cabinet offices.
To no avail. Hindus believe that monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god, Hanuman, and worshippers come to Raisina Hill every Tuesday handing out bananas.
Last year the monkeys made their presence felt by hanging from window ledges and screeching at reporters arriving for a news conference with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"It's a big problem, especially in the evening," says Defense Ministry spokesman Amitabha Chakrabarti. Monkeys break into offices at night and paw through the files looking for food, he said. "Those who work late hours have to be careful when it is dark."
The city estimates at least 1,500 of New Delhi's more than 5,000 macaques live on Raisina Hill.
In the latest effort, a monkey relocation initiative, 400 monkeys have been caught at Raisina Hill in the past year and moved to a holding area on the outskirts of New Delhi to await their return to forests in neighboring states, said Madan Thapliyal, a municipality spokesman.
But governments of those states have so far refused to take the furry exiles, saying they have more than enough of their own.
Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of the late Indian leader Indira Gandhi and an independent lawmaker in the lower house of India's Parliament, believes the monkeys should be left in peace.
Gandhi, an animal rights advocate, has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.
She claims that captured macaques, despite their holiness to Hindus, have been given to laboratories for experimentation or have died in their holding area cages. They were "relocated to monkey heaven," she said.
The government says more than 200 monkeys have been relocated to Gandhi's parliamentary district about 125 miles east of New Delhi. Gandhi denies it. "It's all rubbish," she said. "Not one monkey has been relocated to my constituency."
Atul K. Gupta, of the Wildlife Institute of India, says macaques belong in forests, but deforestation and human settlement are driving them into cities in search of food.
Macaques are crafty pickpockets, know how to open refrigerators, and brazenly snatch lunch pails from government workers, he said. "They have learned the tricks of finding food in an urban environment."
The answer, he said, is to save the forests. Otherwise, he says, "the problem will get worse."

 
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Sounds fun, as does monkey heaven!
 
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it's no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys.


No, it's not a suprise, sounds like the White House.
 
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Who has invited you to Delhi?
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
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Who has invited you to Delhi?




that too for terrorising Tourists and workers
 
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Raisana Hill is President of India office. Please use some other name while posting.
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
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Who has invited you to Delhi?


I am IN Delhi.Where is the question of invitation?
 
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If you are in Delhi, how come you got this article. Am i missing something here??
[ November 09, 2003: Message edited by: mazha thulli ]
 
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I scan hundreds of newspapers for the President.This was one of the news.Guys/Gals,problem is how to get rid of these monkeys in Delhi?Any solution,Sunitha?
 
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Originally posted by <Raisana Hill>:
I scan hundreds of newspapers for the President.This was one of the news.Guys/Gals,problem is how to get rid of these monkeys in Delhi?Any solution,Sunitha?


Looks like you have lot of free time. You can make use of the time by catching monkeys. The Presisent may reward you for your efforts.
 
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I have one solution. Please go to that area and give all lady monkeys some birth control pills. Lady monkeys will think you one of them so dont worry they attack you. Why not buy some ortho evara and stick it.

 
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Originally posted by <Raisana Hill>:
I scan hundreds of newspapers for the President.This was one of the news.Guys/Gals,problem is how to get rid of these monkeys in Delhi?Any solution,Sunitha?


You can invite G.W Bush to delhi
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:

Looks like you have lot of free time. You can make use of the time by catching monkeys. The Presisent may reward you for your efforts.


Thanks Pradeep,I think you too have lot of free time as you are replying to my nonsense .Send me some traps to catch the monkeys.I will be greatful.People from Delhi will also be greatful to you.
 
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Originally posted by mazha thulli:
Lady monkeys will think you one of them so dont worry they attack you. Why not buy some ortho evara and stick it.


Likeminded people always think similar.since when do you know these lady monkeys in Delhi?
 
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Thanks Pradeep,I think you too have lot of free time as you are replying to my nonsense .Send me some


I certainly have time to catch you. Delhi people will be happy and so will you be happy in the zoo. Also Javaranch members will also be happy.
We can also send you to Pakistan as a friendship gift.
[ November 06, 2003: Message edited by: Pradeep Bhat ]
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:

I certainly have time to catch you. Delhi people will be happy and so will you be happy in the zoo. Also Javaranch members will also be happy.
We can also send you to Pakistan as a friendship gift.
[ November 06, 2003: Message edited by: Pradeep Bhat ]


 
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Originally posted by <Raisana Hill>:

Likeminded people always think similar.since when do you know these lady monkeys in Delhi?


I know only one lady moneky in delhi and her name is Raisana Hill
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:

I certainly have time to catch you. Delhi people will be happy and so will you be happy in the zoo. Also Javaranch members will also be happy.
We can also send you to Pakistan as a friendship gift.
[ November 06, 2003: Message edited by: Pradeep Bhat ]


Pradeep,
monkeys are good pets
 
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Originally posted by mazha thulli:

Pradeep,
monkeys are good pets


I have heard from Delhi citizens that Raisina Hill monkey is nasty one. This makes it more important to get hold of this monkey ASAP.
 
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Thanks Pradeep for catching me.
I am now happy in the zoo.

The zoo facilities have been improved a lot for monkeys. They have provided me with a computer as well.
Thanks to jason for solving my problem.
 
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InFact Pradeep was put on a Operation Unmask to find how many Ranchers in US can be bribed.
Thanks Pradeep.
 
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InFact Pradeep was put on a Operation Unmask to find how many Ranchers in US can be bribed


What do you mean?

Anyway have a nice time in zoo. Share your computer with other monkeys as well. Dont be selfish.

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Hello,Can anybody will clarify whats going on here?Raisana,What operation are you talking about?Why are not you registered?or are you registered but post these kind of things on this name?
 
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Originally posted by rahul rege:
Hello,Can anybody will clarify whats going on here?Raisana,What operation are you talking about?Why are not you registered?or are you registered but post these kind of things on this name?


How can I register when I am in zoo?
Mr. Rege please visit the zoo and have some monkey fun.

The zoo keeper is very strict jsut like moderators and Sheriifs here.
 
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Hello Raisana , I am also an ape but not in a zoo but works in a software company in Bangalore named KLS software.How come you are put in zoo?Actually I failed many times in putting good grades in college but now earns 10 times more than traditional engineers.Few years back I was also in a zoo.I made a trick.I threatened them that I will develop a software for them.In next one hour I was released.Not only that they assured me to give a job in silicon valley of India.They even assured that people will call me Java+XML+websphere developer onwards.
and now its just work work and work.Follow my trick.
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