Rs 148 lakh plan to oust Shimla monkeys

stormysky

Monkeys, the "naughty" ones, the "household" ones and the "highway" or "fastfood" ones, have held to ransom Shimla.

To end this menace the Centre has submitted a comprehensive action plan to the Supreme Court.

The Union Ministry of Enviornment and Forest and the government of Himachal Pradesh have jointly prepared the plan and have envisaged an expenditure of Rs 148 lakhs to combat the menace of nearly 1600 monkeys in Shimla and on the Shimla-Kalka National Highway.

More at
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/22simla.htm

SHIMLA

The last sentence in the article whose link has been provided by "stormysky" above, is the one which requires the most attention !

The poor monkeys will now pay for humans' folly !!

Have we really evolved ???

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Hippie at Heart

Offices around Raisina Hills and in particular Ministry of Defence had the same monkey menace around and just dint knew what to do with hoards of rhesus monkies marching around in working barracks. Tried almost every non-violent trick known to them to keep the monkies away. Till a passing sadhu gave them a suggestion!!! That idea found a man employed along with his prancing muse. Now Ministry of defence is guarded by a Himalayan Langoor, who simply have to swoop on couple of local resident monkies, gnash his fangs at them and twist a tail here and there, bye bye to too much monkey business and this govt office see some efficient working (??) .. Maybe simla monkies can have something similar.

Maz 1979

As a born and bred Londoner my Monkey experience was at a minimum when i got to Shimla but i actually loved seeing them running round up to no good. But then again i never walked round with food etc.

However i was mugged in Rishikesh for my peanuts, Lobo was kind enough to capture the moment on camera. What i will say is for such a small looking monkey he is fiendishly strong!

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Syiem

Human's folly indeed. I am a frequent traveller on the Chandigarh-Shimla Highway and you did get to see an occassional family basking in the sun on the birms earlier. They were never a problem untill 'humans' started giving feeding them breads...easy food for the monkeys. They have now caused several accidents and many people have been bitten by them recently.

Well that's the way we are...we first create a problem. We then wait till it grows big enough. We then spend millions of rupees to get rid of it. This should not have allowed to happen in the first place

Syiem

Well, what you have in the pic is a 'Langoor' and it is much more fierce and stronger than the usual monkey.

Maz 1979

Thanks Syiem,
I just thought i was ridiculously weak!!

shere

Saw a few langoors in Kasauli last year. They appeared to have no effect on the rhesus type monkeys who happily walked around.

The one I photographed did get a bit upset and snarl its teeth at me

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lobo

Anyone know what the below monkey is? saw it in mcleod and it seemed very BIG

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Syiem

That one surely is a langoor.

Syiem

The two different monkeys generally peacefully co-exist (a lesson for humans), however when food is at a premium, the langoors dominate the race.

Incidentally, the parliament house in Delhi (where you find yet another type of monkeys) is infested these days with an ever growing population of rhesus monkeys. The officials there have hired trained langoors to scare these monkeys away and it seems to work better than most other things tried in the past.

lobo

It seemed a LOT BIGGER than the other langoors and very stocky. It was very muscular. I didnt think it was a langoor.