Report: India Calls In Fierce Langurs to Chase Smaller Monkeys From Subways

[Guest guest]

Report: India Calls In Fierce Langurs to Chase Smaller Monkeys From Subways

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

 

NEW DELHI — It's primate versus primate in New Delhi's metro system.

In an effort to keep monkeys out of the Indian

capital's

<javascript:siteSearch('subways');>subways,

authorities have called in one of the few animals

known to scare the creatures — a fierce-looking

primate called the

<javascript:siteSearch('langur');>langur, the

<javascript:siteSearch('Hindustan

Times');>Hindustan Times newspaper reported

Wednesday.

The decision to hire a langurwallah — a man who

trains and controls the langurs — came after a

monkey got into a metro car in June, the

newspaper reported.

The langur handler is being paid a retainer of

$160 a month, and " he will be called whenever

there is a monkey problem, "

<javascript:siteSearch('Anuj Dayal');>Anuj Dayal,

the spokesman for the

<javascript:siteSearch('Delhi Metro Rail

Corp.');>Delhi Metro Rail Corp., was quoted as

saying.

On June 9, a monkey reportedly crawled through

some pipes and ended up aboard a train, scowling

at passengers and jumping around a car.

Passengers had to be moved to another car while

staff chased the dexterous creature, causing

delays.

The langur handler was being employed to prevent more such problems.

" There are too many monkeys, " Dayal told the paper.

 

--

Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper

Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A.

CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE

Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with

French and Spanish language subsections.