Posted 03.19.2012 at 11:06 am
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Too Much Monkey Business
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A rhesus macaque awaits a vasectomy at a wildlife rescue facility in Himachal Pradesh, India. The state’s estimated 319,000 monkeys frequently ransack garbage cans and harass citizens. Last year, the state government announced a bounty of 500 rupees ($9.50) to anyone who captured and transported a monkey to a sterilization center, and program administrators estimate that they will neuter 200,000 monkeys, at 25 sterilization centers statewide, by June.
Sterilization initiatives for troublemaking monkeys aren’t unprecedented. In 2002, Hong Kong began a similar program, but the city’s conservation department soon discovered that the local macaques were difficult to catch—the animals learned to elude traps and decoys. Still, veterinary staffers were able to sterilize more than 1,500 monkeys, and nuisance calls about them dropped from a peak of 1,400 in 2006 to fewer than 200 in recent years.
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What level of sterilization they are referring too? Are they taking away the testacies or an actual vasectomy? Lack of testis, will lower the incentive of the rowdiness adventure behavior.
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
This just in: India starting evolution program to result in smarter, harder-to-catch monkeys. Basically, if you are a macaque, if you are too dumb, slow, or easy-to-catch, then you will be removed from the gene-pool and your fitter friends will survive to do the baby-making thing until the Indian govt does another sterilization...
Public school education of the animals would seem to be the appropriate response...but maybe they are trying to set an object lesson for people. In which case the animal should receive the wages of a teacher, just to be fair. Send him by public carrier to classrooms all over the globe and have him lift his Board of Education approved skirt for all the hormonally driven teenagers.
If they do that monkeys will be irresponsible with sex and immoral.