Category: Miscellaneous

01 Jul 2024 18:42

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How would you deal with monkeys in your locality?

In our locality lot of monkeys have arrived all of a sudden and they are absolutely destroying everything they see. I have a terrace garden which is becoming their favorite place to hangout. It looks like someone has left these bunch of monkeys in our locality because there were absolutely no monkey here previously. May be they love the greenery here because of so many edible fruits available for them to eat. It has been a hot summer this year and I don't know how these monkeys
survive because whenever someone sees them they just throw stone at them. We have overhead tanks on terrace and monkeys enjoy having a bath in it. We have to clean the tanks every now and then because this nuisance. It is absolutely not possible to keep them away from water tanks because they break the lid of the tank and enter in it. How to deal with this issue?

#780632

01 Jul 2024 20:49

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In our locality at present, there are no monkeys. When I was staying in Hindupur, AP, we had a big problem with monkeys. Our residence is on the first floor of a building. There was no net for the balcony. So monkeys were entering the balcony and if the door was open, those monkeys were entering the house. All the time we had to keep the door closed only. That building was given to us by the management of the company. I asked them to provide some weld mesh to the balcony so that no monkey would come inside. After that modification, we had no issue.
Even today I remember one incident that happened in Tirumala when we went there for Darshan during my school days. My parents and my two sisters were with us. My father kept his shirt on the steps to get into Pushkarani and entered the river to have a holy dip. Meanwhile, one monkey snatched away that shirt. The money he brought for that tour was in the purse that was kept in the pocket of that shirt. My father was very worried and trying to frighten the monkey with a stick. Meanwhile, a person there told me not to frighten the monkey. He brought some six bananas and kept them on the stairs. That monkey left the shirt and took away those bananas. The purse in the shirt was intact.

drrao
always confident

#780633

01 Jul 2024 20:52

Joined:	25/11/2014
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The monkey menace cannot be handled so easily unless we ourselves take appropriate steps to restrain them from doing such nuisances.
In my locality. at Bokaro Steel City, the management takes prompt step to rush to the areas from where they receive complaints of their atrocities. To catch them is itself a difficult task unless they come prepared with all the safety materials including a truck.
It is really an Herculean Task to defeat the monkeys unless the staffs are equally intelligent to handle them effectively.
With a lot of struggle, they can be loaded in the trucks successfully.

#780634

01 Jul 2024 21:06

Joined:	20/01/2017
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This has become a serious issue in many places in our country and so far there is no solution coming up which can effectively deal this menace. In some places people are using dummy rifles to create big sounds. The monkeys go away for some time but again they return.
One of our relatives visited Mathura-Vrindavan and told us that some of the monkeys there snatch items from the hands of the visitors and return that only when they are offered a cool drink or biscuit or something attractive to them.
One of the reason why they are entering towns is that in forest they do not get enough food and so are forced to eter the human dwellings.
They are a big nuisance as they damage the kitchen gardens and even destroy decoration plants on the roof top of the house.

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#780635

02 Jul 2024 07:34

Joined:	10/12/2016
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It is very true that due to change in forest density and habitat patterns some animals are leaving forests and entering the villages or adjoining towns in search of food and disturbing the humans. Monkeys are one of them and are in large numbers and generally move in groups.
In many religious places we are seeing a good gathering of monkeys and they are getting some food items from the visitors as well as the shopkeepers in that area.
In some areas they have become too offensive and attack the people walking on the roads. It is a big menace and due to religious reasons many people oppose the idea of killing them and there are legal restrictions also against killing the animals.
So right now there is nothing that can be done in the matter until the concerned Govt agency finds some way of relocating or confining them to certain forest areas.

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How would you deal with monkeys in your locality?

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