[vinnomot] Horde of Monkeys Kill BJP Leader

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm   Monkey attack kills Delhi leader

Delhi has long struggled to cope with the marauding monkeys The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.   SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.   The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.   The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year. Solution elusive   One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests. But the problem has persisted.   Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.   Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.   Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Some personal observations about Indian Monkeys:   1) They prefer peanuts to bananas. 2) Careful with putting shirts to dry on the roof, because they like to bite off the buttons. 3) They're ruthless and cruel, mauling and killing each other. 4) Their social system isn't very just with the alpha males needing to be more considerate. 5) Langur Monkeys seem more better behaved than the common variety who are far too junglee.

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