India's monkeys 'to be put on the pill'

[Bosonic]

India is planning to put its rising population of primates on the pill to tackle the growing "monkey menace" in its towns and cities, government wildlife officials have confirmed.

Vasectomies and sterilisation programmes are also being developed as part of a broader plan to curb the chaos being caused by troupes of marauding monkeys as urban India expands into their traditional forests.

Thousands of red-bottomed Rhesus Macaques or Bhandar monkeys are the scourge of New Delhi, where they roam through government buildings, chew Internet cables, bite the unwary carrying food and steal from people's homes.

Delhi's deputy mayor was killed when he was knocked from his balcony by clambering monkeys in 2007.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10457004/Indias-monkeys-to-be-put-on-the-pill.html

[Maraya1969]

1. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning and go into the living room.

It looks like someone dropped a box of monkeys in there during the night.