Posted on 01/18/2019 8:17:21 AM PST by ETL
Savitri Devi was sitting on a terrace with her daughter-in-law in northern India when they were attacked by the violent primates ..."
"...as they both fled the terrifying assault, the pair fell off the terrace – a plunge which killed Savitri “on the spot”, reports The Times of India.
Renu was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
It is not clear the distance the pair fell from the terrace or Savitri's exact cause of death.
This is the third death caused by monkeys in Uttar Pradesh in the last three months.
Indian activists are now calling for the protected species to be moved to a sanctuary and funds to be raised to pay for sterilisation and victim compensation.
In November, a woman bled to death after being attacked by a group of belligerent mammals in Agra.
The victim, whose age varies in reports between 58 and 59, was bitten to death after wandering into a field near her home.
That horror attack came days after a 12-day-old baby was bitten to death by another monkey, on the outskirts of Agra.
Baby Arush was rushed to hospital but was sadly declared dead on arrival after he was fatally attacked.
The child's father Yogesh, who drives an auto rickshaw, told local media: "The front door was left open and my wife was breastfeeding the baby when a monkey suddenly ran into the house."
Yogesh said that the monkey grabbed the infant by his neck and ran off before his mum Neha could do anything.
The couple, who have been married for two years, chased the animal and found their first-born child on a neighbour’s roof.
Little Arush was bleeding profusely and had no pulse, according to the father.
Reports said that the same monkey attacked a sleeping 14-year-old girl in the neighbourhood about 15 minutes before running off with Arush.
Local police confirmed that the infant’s body has been sent for an autopsy and will be given back to the family for burial.
Singh added that another baby was attacked by a monkey in the same area two months ago but fortunately survived and is recovering in hospital. ..."
I believe in the Peter Gabriel response: Don’t you know you’ve got to SHOCK the monkey?
When my back was turned, my middle daughter, age 5, had pulled an apple out of her backpack and was starting to munch on it when one of those monkeys made an aggressive approach.
She started to run and I sized up the situation quickly and told her to throw the apple. She didn't so I snatched it and did. Fortunately, the monkey stopped the pursuit of us and went off in pursuit of the apple. There was no way we could outrun them.
Thanks God you were there-——nasty little buggers.
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This is why we need high capacity magazines.
There are a few temples where the monks give them sanctuary and people feed them, but outside of that, no, they are not protected. They have professional monkey catchers like we have dog catchers over here who try to grab them and clear them out of the cities.
They never should have shown “Planet of of the Apes” at an outdoor theater. Planted the idea in the monkeys’ heads.
Did you ever see the film Congo?
macaque kung fu. Who’d a thunk?
Maybe they need to start spanking their monkeys.
Back in 2011, Naruto was just an anonymous macaque in the jungles of Indonesia. On one particular day, however, the photogenic primate happened upon a wildlife photographer’s camera and snapped a “monkey selfie.”
Whether the act was intentional or a quite-too-literal instance of monkeying around, only the grinning primate knows for certain. But it raised a complicated question: Who owns the images Naruto took, the monkey or the man?
It also started a years-long saga in which the U.S. Copyright Office and even Wikipedia weighed in.
On Monday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a settlement with photographer David Slater, ending a lawsuit it filed on Naruto’s behalf. Under the deal, Slater agreed to donate 25 percent of future revenue from the photos to groups that protect crested macaques and their habitat in Indonesia.
Both sides also asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “to dismiss the case and throw out a lower court decision that said animals cannot own copyrights,” The Associated Press reports.
“PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for nonhuman animals, a goal that they both support, and they will continue their respective work to achieve this goal,” read a joint statement on the group’s website. ...”
Wow! It’s good seeing Joe Flaherty’s picture again! That guy was a real funny man.
I often have the same problem. You want to grab on somewhere, but where?!
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