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Jeff Miller
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 Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:34 am Monkeys at Hindu Temple Attack Children |
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| Quote: | Monkeys at Hindu Temple Attack Children
By WASBIR HUSSAIN
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have attacked up to 300 children over three weeks, temple officials said Tuesday.
``They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a bit of blood,'' Bani Kumar Sharma, a priest at the Kamakhya temple in Assam state, told The Associated Press. The temple, one of the most famous in India, is located in Gauhati, Assam's capital.
``I was returning home from school when a monkey suddenly pounced on me, scratched my head and hand and pushed me to the ground,'' said Jolly Sharma, a 6-year-old girl.
At least 2,000 rhesus monkeys roam in and around the temple, but none had shown aggressive behavior in the past, the priest said.
Monkeys are often found in tens of thousands of temples across India. They are seen as a symbol of Hanuman, the mythical monkey god, and devotees visiting temples often feed them. While occasional attacks by monkeys are not uncommon at temples, the sudden surge in attacks at the Gauhati temple has experts perplexed.
Some say the Gauhati monkeys may be turning violent because of shrinking living spaces, or because animals once kept as pets might not have been able to adjust to new lives around the temple.
``The loss of habitat due to increased human settlement in the hills around the temple and the release of monkeys kept confined at home ... could be among the reasons for some of the monkeys behaving in a weird manner,'' said Narayan Mahanta, a wildlife official in Gauhati.
Three monkeys were randomly tranquilized by wildlife officials over the weekend and have been taken to the Gauhati Zoo where they will be examined in search of clues to explain the changing behavior, Mahanta said.
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| Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:20 am |
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Weird... what else can be said?
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Defiant
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| Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:45 am |
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Monkeys kick ass.
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| Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:43 am |
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My girlfriend is from India. I actually asked her about the significance of monekys. I know that Elephants are held in high regard. She said they usually leave them(monkeys) alone. I guess they won't be able to if this keeps up.
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Jeff Miller
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| Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:53 pm |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Monkeys kick ass. |
Can't go wrong with that statement when do they not?
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Captain Dappet
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:25 am |
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The end is near. Hanuman is angry, and sends his money servants to punish us.
Alright, maybe not. I think the explanation about the decreasing living space seems quite likely. It's only natural that animals get violent if their homes are taken away.
Even humans do that.
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Superman
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:02 am |
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I'm reminded of the Treehouse of Horror episode from The Simpsons twelfth season. Dolphins came onto land and started attacking humans. We fought, they won. We were banished to the sea.
Perhaps monkeys are rebelling. Perhaps we'll soon be banished to the jungles, folks.
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Captain Dappet
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:45 am |
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Planet of the Apes! 
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Superman
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:05 am |
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| Captain Dappet wrote: | | Planet of the Apes! |
Oh yes. And, I just thought, an ape did attempt to escape recently from a zoo here in Britain.
Maybe it's already started. Soon, we'll all be chained by our necks and doing menial tasks.
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Hitchhiker
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:44 am |
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| Starfleet Dentist wrote: | | Soon, we'll all be chained by our necks and doing menial tasks. |
Don't we already do that? The "chain" is figurative, but many of us sit in a cubicle all day performing hopeless menial tasks with no hope of escape. 
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Curtis
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:17 am |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Monkeys kick ass. |
Yeah, and in this case...quite literally.
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Superman
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| Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:14 pm |
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| Quote: | | Don't we already do that? The "chain" is figurative, but many of us sit in a cubicle all day performing hopeless menial tasks with no hope of escape. |
I think you are quite right. In fact, are we not all prisoners in some way? There may be no cells but we are all trapped somewhere, in a figurative sense.
As to literal chains, I wouldn't mind being chained up as long as it was Janeway or Seven of Nine doing it (preferably barefoot at the time).
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