So that macaques do not attack motorcades of foreign leaders during the G20 summit, people will imitate the screams of the langur monkey – their natural enemy.
About 30 specially trained people in New Delhi will scare away rhesus monkeys so that they do not derail the G20 summit, which will be held in the capital of India in early September.
This is reported by France24 with reference to local authorities.
To prevent macaques from attacking the motorcades of foreign leaders during the G20 summit, people will imitate screams langur monkeys are their natural enemy. To do this, the New Delhi City Hall attracted from 30 to 40 so-called “monkey people”.
“We cannot drive the monkeys out of their natural habitat. Therefore, we sent a group of 30-40 trained people to scare the monkeys,” said Satish Upadhyay, vice president of the New Delhi Municipal Council, on Wednesday, August 30.
According to him, one at a time on purpose a trained person will be accommodated in each of the hotels where the delegates will stay, as well as in places where monkeys have been sighted.
Fearing that macaques might attack the motorcades of foreign leaders during the G20 summit or eat flower decorations, the city council asked the forestry department to draw up an action plan. actual size.
Earlier on the streets Special patrols were sent out to New Delhi, accompanied by trained langur monkeys, but this practice stopped when the court found it cruel to keep these animals in captivity. , which will be held in New Delhi on September 9-10, invited the Russian president-dictator Vladimir Putin, but not the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky.
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