Friday, August 06, 2004

Monkey Wars

I almost don't believe this, and if I weren't in India I wouldn't think that it was true, but the Asian Age reported yesterday that companies are now buying trained langurs (big, black-faced, white-furred monkeys that I threw rocks at in the mountains) to defend their buildings against typical rhesus monkeys that are all over Delhi. These trained langhurs will patrol the grounds of a given building and will violently attack any other monkeys that come near it. If the monkeys here are like terrorists, these Langhurs are like the Special Forces. I've yet to see a Langhur/Rhesus battle, but I bet it'd be interesting. The langhurs are big (probably a good 40+ lbs) and strongly built. When we were in the mountains, it was legitimately scary when they charged. The rhesus monkeys are just funny and pretty small, if terrorist-like. Plus they travel in huge groups, titling the scales in their favor. All in all, it's nice to know that in the war on terrorist monkeys, someone (something) is out there fighting for us.

1 Comments:

At 8/06/2004 10:14:00 AM, Blogger Kelly Hall said...

How do either of these kinds of monkeys compare to the vicious "Helper Monkeys" that are going around supermarkets in the US biting 2 year olds? Of course this is just me getting my news from the Daily Show again but it looks like the monkey wars are operating on the homefront as well.

 

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