monkey meyhem

I saw this headline on the BBC, and for a moment I was sure I had misread: Monkey attack kills Delhi leader. Sadly I had not. It is, of course, not a flesh-eating-monkey story but one of those stupid 'fell from a height while shooing the monkeys' stories. I visited a town in Thailand that had a monkey infestation, and it's easy to see how much meyhem they can cause, as you really can't stop them from going anywhere.

Anonymous commented:
Yeah, but the best part was one of the possible solutions: "One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques." yikes. nothing can go wrong with that plan...-ryan
on Mon Oct 22 15:40:11 2007

David commented:
...and then we trained some even bigger monkeys to chase those monkeys off, and then...

I assume sooner or later you get to 'planet of the apes'?

on Mon Oct 22 16:59:16 2007

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