That's my friend! The monkey virus that does not want to let a baby come play with him

February 18, 2019

The video of a "cute" monkey who has made friends with a two-year-old boy and does not let him take him on his side began to circulate over networks over the week-end. -end and was recorded in a district of Haryana in India.

While the video broadcast over the weekend shows the monkey's tenderness in the streets of Haryana, the fact is that India is facing a serious problem for years due to the invasion of primates . In this opportunity, the child comes to play with the monkey, who accepts it quickly and starts to inspect it as he would with one of his peers. When the woman comes to take the child, the monkey begins to hug him while trying to take the hand of the lady who is trying to "take away" her friend.

India is looking for solutions to deal with its chronic plague of monkeys in the north of the country, a problem that has become endemic despite various campaigns of sterilization and sacrifice of animals that have not worked and that frustrate authorities and experts they even hired 40 men dressed as monkeys in 2014 to scare off the primates that invaded the Indian parliament.

One of the most affected states is Himachal Pradesh, where the Indian Department of Forests has registered more than 200,000 copies. The situation obliges to carry out a project of "familiar planning" of the simios on the part of the Institute of the wild life of India (WII), with the importation from the United States of contraceptive pills it cost about 6,000 rupees (87.75 euros) per dose.

To the problem of quantity adds aggression which, according to experts, is due to the people themselves in India heal and venerate primates as representatives of the Hanuman monkey god. According to the primatologist and ecologist of German behavior Wolfang Dittus, this generates bigger problems since "Primates include food products as submissive exercises and have interpreted that they can attack people if they do not meet their dietary needs."