Vampire Monkeys!
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:10:56 GMT
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http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041102/ap/d863k83o0.html
Tuesday November 2, 4:23 PM
300 children bitten by 'blood sucking' monkeys at famous Indian temple
Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have
attacked up to 300 children over three weeks, temple officials said
Tuesday.
"They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about
in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a
bit of blood," Bani Kumar Sharma, a priest at the Kamakhya temple in
Assam state, told The Associated Press. The temple, one of the most
famous in India, is located in Gauhati, Assam's capital.
"I was returning home from school when a monkey suddenly pounced on me,
scratched my head and hand and pushed me to the ground," said Jolly
Sharma, a 6-year-old girl.
At least 2,000 rhesus monkeys roam in and around the temple, but none
had shown aggressive behavior in the past, the priest said.
Monkeys are often found in tens of thousands of temples across India.
They are seen as a symbol of Hanuman, the mythical monkey god, and
devotees visiting temples often feed them. While occasional attacks by
monkeys are not uncommon at temples, the sudden surge in attacks at the
Gauhati temple has experts perplexed.
Some say the Gauhati monkeys may be turning violent because of shrinking
living spaces, or because animals once kept as pets might not have been
able to adjust to new lives around the temple.
"The loss of habitat due to increased human settlement in the hills
around the temple and the release of monkeys kept confined at home ...
could be among the reasons for some of the monkeys behaving in a weird
manner," said Narayan Mahanta, a wildlife official in Gauhati.
Three monkeys were randomly tranquilized by wildlife officials over the
weekend and have been taken to the Gauhati Zoo where they will be
examined in search of clues to explain the changing behavior, Mahanta
said.
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:33:11 GMT
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In article <4187794E.99DEA5C6@ranunculus.org>,
Konig Pruss, GfbAEV wrote:
> Some say the Gauhati monkeys may be turning violent because of shrinking
> living spaces, or because animals once kept as pets might not have been
> able to adjust to new lives around the temple.
I think this could also explain a lot of the behavior we see on the
news. People don't take well to that temple crap at all. Maybe it would
help if they just cleaned the bathrooms normally instead of dousing them
liberally with flamethrowers once a week. Poor monkeys; whether its a
shortage of bananas or a lack of Hot Pockets, they always end up biting
the locals and hurling the poo.
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Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:34:07 GMT
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HellPope Huey wrote:
> In article <4187794E.99DEA5C6@ranunculus.org>,
> Konig Pruss, GfbAEV wrote:
>
> > Some say the Gauhati monkeys may be turning violent because of shrinking
> > living spaces, or because animals once kept as pets might not have been
> > able to adjust to new lives around the temple.
>
> I think this could also explain a lot of the behavior we see on the
> news. People don't take well to that temple crap at all. Maybe it would
> help if they just cleaned the bathrooms normally instead of dousing them
> liberally with flamethrowers once a week. Poor monkeys; whether its a
> shortage of bananas or a lack of Hot Pockets, they always end up biting
> the locals and hurling the poo.
>
> --
>
That's what I always do. It is the Dung-fu Way!