[monkeywire] Indian state's solution to monkey menace involves 'laser sterilization, ' unemployed youth

carrie mclaren brooklynite282 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 13:45:19 EST 2008


(Thanks to Josh Greenman)

Indian state's solution to monkey menace involves 'laser
sterilization,' unemployed youth
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/indian-states-s.html

Posted by Mike Carney at 01:38 PM/ET, January 03, 2008

We have some bad news for the thousands of wild monkeys who have been
wreaking havoc in Himachal Pradesh, India. The mountainous state says
it plans to train young people to perform "laser sterilization" on the
animals.

"Affected districts would be identified and local youth involved in
the process, who would be provided training in capturing and
sterilization by the experts,"     Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal
says in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.

As we told you in October, a band of wild monkeys was accused of
killing New Delhi's deputy mayor.


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