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Mad monkey menace grips city
MAD MONKEY menace has gripped the city. No one knows as from where do they come, but they frequently visit different localities and continue to create panic there till they are finally caught. But, authorities here are facing unsolved riddle that who will catch these mad monkeys and where will they be kept.
MAD MONKEY menace has gripped the city. No one knows as from where do they come, but they frequently visit different localities and continue to create panic there till they are finally caught. But, authorities here are facing unsolved riddle that who will catch these mad monkeys and where will they be kept.
The zoo authorities are often approached to catch the mad monkeys. Despite the fact that the zoo administration has nothing to do of catching the mad monkeys outside the zoo campus, they render their services in the public interest. But at last they have also to bear the burden of keeping such monkeys in the isolated rooms in the zoo and to feed them till they survive. At present, the zoo has three mad monkeys in three separate isolated rooms. These monkeys were caught from Aryan Agar, HBTI campus and Naubasta area last year.
Zoo director R Hemant Kumar said, “No DFO will prefer to get the mad monkeys released in the forest under his jurisdiction.” These monkeys could not be released in the forest area adjacent to any locality. Consequently, the zoo has to keep them at its cost.
Recently, a mad monkey has created problem for the residents of Chandra Vihar Colony. The monkey has bitten three children. Residents made several attempts to trap the monkey, but failed in their attempts.
Ignorant about the real authority responsible for trapping the mad monkey, a delegation led by the former general manager Jal Sansthan SR Dixit, who also happens to be the patron of Chandra Vihar Housing Association, met the zoo director R Hemant Kumar on Wednesday and asked him to get the monkey caught by the experts. But the zoo director expressed his helplessness in getting the monkey trapped.Explaining the reason, he said the monkey had raided the Vikas Nagar locality some 15 days ago and efforts were made to trap it in a cage.
At one point, the monkey had entered into the cage, but at the last hour the person responsible for pulling the sliding shutter from above the cage, refused to pull down the shutter saying that it would be an offence to trap the monkey, who is worshipped. The monkey escaped after eating the fruits kept inside the cage.
Later, several attempts were made to trap it again in the cage, but being a highly sensible and intelligent animal it realised that it might be caught and hence it avoided to entre into the cage. However, it left the colony and now it was creating panic in Chandra Vihar Colony. Now the residents are seeking assistance of a professional monkey catcher.
