Indian monkey goes crazy stealing potatoes! Farmer COS bears scare monkeys, but this style of painting hahahahahaha

This article is reprinted from the WeChat public account: Those Things in the UK

Farmers in northern India are driven crazy by monkeys who steal and eat their food.

There is a group of monkeys in the area,They often go to farmers’ fields to steal food, whether potatoes or strawberries, they harvest everything as ordered, causing considerable losses to farmers’ harvests.

Sometimes, monkeys break into farmers’ homes and rummage through the refrigerators in search of food, disturbing people.

(Monkey eating potatoes)

“They broke the water pipes in my house, broke the water tank on the roof and smashed the potted plants in our house,” complained one Delhiite.

“They were yelling at me when I was waving a stick to chase them away.”

Farmers have thought of many ways,For example, I used brooms to drive away monkeys, beat drums or pans to scare away monkeys, and put scarecrows in the fields, but these were of no use. The monkeys were not afraid at all.Even local government officials responsible for wildlife management cannot solve this thorny problem.

In short, the monkeys drove the farmers to their wits’ end…

(Indian monkey)

Recently, in the Sambhar region of Uttar Pradesh, I don’t know who came up with the idea.Farmers began dressing up as bears in an attempt to scare away the monkeys’ natural predators, which they feared so much.

(Farmer pretends to be a bear to scare monkeys)

So farmers bought black bear costumes, dressed as bears and stood in the fields, roaring in an attempt to scare away potato-stealing monkeys.

But…the farmers’ cosplay costumes are a bit funny, and the more I look at them, the more I can’t stand it…

(Farmers pretend to be bears to protect their fields)

Sometimes they would patrol the village, pretending to chase monkeys that broke into the village and scare them away.

(Farmer pretends to be a bear to scare away monkeys)

Although this black bear costume seems a bit funny to humans, this trick did fool the monkeys. As soon as they saw the bear, they were frightened and ran away, not daring to come closer.

(Farmer pretends to be a bear to scare monkeys)

actually,The method of scaring monkeys by pretending to be natural enemies is not new.

Previously in Delhi, a residential area for some senior officials,People will be hired to put on langur costumes to scare the monkeys, because the black-faced langurs are relatively large, while the rhesus monkeys that steal food are smaller, so they will be scared away.

Before 2012, Indians kept real langurs in captivity and released the langurs to drive away the rhesus monkeys.

However, starting in 2012, India began to strictly implement the Wildlife Protection Law and no longer allowed langurs to be kept in captivity, so it was changed to let people pretend to be langurs.

(person dressed as a langur)

Whether it’s pretending to be a bear or a langur, some people estimate that these tricks treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

Hindus like to feed monkeys because they believe that the monkey god Hanuman can bring them good luck, and the behavior of feeding encourages monkeys to return to human settlements to beg for food. If the feeding problem is not solved, the monkeys will eventually come back.

(Feeding potatoes to monkeys)

In addition, human deforestation makes it difficult for monkeys to find food in their natural habitats, forcing them to come to human settlements to find food.

For example, in various parts of northern India, monkeys have to desperately find ways to find food in order to survive, no matter what method they use.

(Farmer pretends to be a bear to scare monkeys)

and,It’s not just monkeys that cause trouble to farmers, but also cows.

As we all know, cows have a high status in India due to religious reasons.

In most states in India, cow slaughter is prohibited, and slaughterhouses do not accept cattle raised by people, so when people find that their cattle are of no value, they release them.

These cows would run into farmers’ fields in search of food. One cow would be driven away, and another would come back. It was completely uncontrollable.

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh said: “Sometimes there are too many cows and I can’t drive them alone. My wife and children have to drive them with me.”

(“free-range” cattle in India)

After all, it is human behavior that triggers this series of chain reactions.

If we want to cure the root cause, I’m afraid people still have to start by changing themselves…

(Farmer pretends to be a bear to scare monkeys)