Why can't the U.S.A. have problems like this?

[jackshoegazer]

Seriously.  Just the idea of monkeys roaming wild.  Read on, and you'll discover they're training bigger monkeys to beat up the smaller monkeys.  Seriously.  Best urban problem ever.

Monkey attack kills Delhi leader

Delhi has long struggled to cope with the marauding monkeys

The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.

The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year.

Solution elusive

One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.

But the problem has persisted.

Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.

Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.

Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

Comments

[protodisco.livejournal.com]

that picture on the bbc's site with the monkey leaping with the baby monkey attached to his stomach is fucking awesome. Thank you for this article. I read it aloud to my roommates and we all laughed and envisioned scenario's involving monkeys taking over. it was a good 8 minutes of pure fun.

Glad for the laughs!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's a WAAAY better picture than the one in my post! Grrr BBC for changing it! Grrrr!

My favorite line: ...to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

Throughout history, that has NEVER worked with ANY set of animals :P