NEW DELHI: Indian officials preparing for the G20 summit next week have hired teams of 'monkey-men' and erected primate cutouts to deter marauding monkeys from munching on the floral displays laid out for global leaders.
New Delhi's city council has hired more than 30 'monkey wallahs,' or 'monkey-men,' who mimic the hoots and screams of the aggressive langur monkey — the natural enemy of the smaller rhesus macaque primates who wreak havoc in the capital's leafy government areas.
Police have readied a near-shutdown of the center of the capital for the September 9-10 summit, with roads blocked and a holiday declared with businesses shut.'Change a monkey's mind?' But worries that troops of monkeys may charge in front of the conveys of cars ferrying presidents and prime ministers from the Group of 20 nations meant the council turned to the forest department for a plan.
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