Wednesday, December 09, 2015. The population in India is alarmed by the large number of Monkeys that have become killers causing chaos and panic. In Patna, city in northeast India on the banks of the Ganges River, capital of the Hindu federal state; a priest has died as a result of injuries caused by a brick that a monkey threw at him while he was cleaning the outside of his house. Apparently, these primates were playing on the terrace of the house, they took several bricks and threw them at him with such bad luck that one hit him on the head; he was rushed to hospital, but he could not survive the severity of his injuries.
This death has generated widespread panic in the town, since it is the third death caused by monkeys in recent weeks. They are very aggressive animals and attack the population, bite and steal all kinds of food; being the children of the schools its main objective. It is also known the case of a baby stolen from his crib by a monkey and taken to the roof of a house; and of a 65-year-old man bitten to death by these killer monkeys.
What for some is a problem for others is a blessing, because monkeys are worshiped by Hinduism and are embodied in one of their gods, the god Hanuman; half monkey and half human, one of the Hindu deities with more devotees, since represents courage and friendship among other virtues, for which monkeys are highly respected.
The apes rule freely in many cities of India, where they often take coexistence with their human relatives to an extreme situation and in the temples destined to worship this monkey-god. They are part of the landscape, one of the best examples in New Delhiwhere is the hanuman temple best known of the Indian capital. For the Priest of the Temple, the monkeys deserve devotion for bestowing peace and health.
Many devotees feed bananas to the monkeys that live in the surroundings, in dispute with the beggars in the garbage containers, when they are unsuccessful in trying to penetrate the houses surrounded by barbed wire and that the tenants have turned into veritable forts.
Another option is to hire a professional monkey scarewho uses shouts, sticks, slingshots and langurs (an elongated monkey, with a black face and a grayish body), which scares smaller congeners with its presence but is no less dangerous for that.
The problem has become more pressing to the extent that New Delhi, with some 16 million inhabitants; It grows continuously and spreads through wooded areas as the natural habitat of apes, which have finally adapted to the asphalt jungle. This video shows the behavior of the monkeys in the city: