India deploys ‘monkey-men’ to keep primates away from G20

The rhesus macaque species often wreaks havoc in New Delhi’s government areas.

NEW DELHI: Indian officials preparing for the G20 summit next week have hired teams of “monkey-men” and erected primate cutouts to deter marauding monkeys from munching on the floral displays laid out for global leaders.

“We can’t remove the monkeys from their natural habitat, so we have deployed a team of 30 to 40 men who are trained to scare away monkeys,” Satish Upadhyay, the vice-chairman of the New Delhi municipal council, told AFP today. Though revered in the majority Hindu nation, monkeys are a major menace, often trashing gardens, office and residential rooftops and even viciously attacking people for food.

Police have readied a near-shutdown of the centre of the capital for the Sept 9 to 10 summit, with roads blocked and a holiday declared with businesses shut.But worries that troops of monkeys may charge in front of the convoys of cars ferrying presidents and prime ministers from the Group of 20 nations meant the council turned to the forest department for a plan.

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