chocolate fond monkey tased at France

In Triplicane, cattle menace is very high – there have been instances of people getting hurt and falling.  There so many of them on streets and then there are the dogs, considered by some as man’s best ally.    Sometime back a PIL was filed at the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai seeking to control the stray dog menace in the city. The petitioner pleaded for direction to authorities to  administer “fatal injection” to the dogs afflicted by rabies in order to control the dog menace.  There 2 women died in successive days due to rabies’ infection. In Chennai there were news of a 4 year old and another 5 year old girls becoming victims of stray dog menace in Washermanpet.  Another was attacked by her neighbour’s dog within RK Nagar police limits.  

Earlier the dog van and the cattle van used to round up stray animals – cattle were kept in bound. Now understand that they are directed to catch the dog, neuter them and release them back in the same area, which is quite arduous task.   ~ and there is monkey menace in some other areas.  Human evolution is the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. There have been many theories confounded on human evolution usually covering the evolution from primates -  the emergence of Homo sapiens ….. and almost immediately some would spring to ask – ‘If humans evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys around?’ 

rare sighting of monkey at Triplicane

Elsewhere in France things are different – ‘No merci!’ as  French police Taser chocolate-loving monkey after it causes 'bedlam' at school by attacking children to get to their treats.  Daily Mail reports that a  monkey hopped up on chocolates was finally subdued by French police with a stun gun after the petite primate terrorized elementary school and college students.

Marseille police had been called more than a dozen times because of the North African macaque, which they believe was once an illegal pet and had been subsisting on Kinder chocolates given to him by children. The monkey had been responsible for scratching children and “causing bedlam.” Authorities finally cornered the mischievous monkey and used a Taser to stop the primate only  after it had bitten one officer, the French paper La Provence reported.

“It is a lesser evil, the maximum we wanted to do to not have to kill him," the police commissioner said.  Reports suggest that the  macaque is recovering and will eventually join a local zoo. The African macaque had apparently been living in the Castellanne neighborhood of Marseilles for several weeks and police were called more than a dozen times over its unruly behaviour.

It took police weeks to catch the monkey and they say its chocolate-only diet has led to malnutrition -  which officers believe caused the monkey to become more aggressive. A police spokesperson said: 'We were given the location, but the time we got there he had left every time.' Upon capture, the  monkey was fed bananas and other treats once it was checked by a vet - and police say it soon became friendly.  Officers are still searching for the animal's original owner, who could face charges of illegally possessing a wild animal. Following a quarantine period the macaque will be taken to live in a local zoo.

With regards – S. Sampathkumar

1^st Jan 2015.