When Monkeys Attack
More monkey news today: The Times of India reports that residents in some areas of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are coming under increasingly violent attack from thuggish simians. Many people have been bitten and others have taken to carrying sticks and stones around with them with which to defend themselves in case of attack.
The problem that was a simple nuisance a couple of months ago, has now turned into an ever-looming horror for them as the battalion now charges at the residents even inside their flats and very often inflict severe injury
Underblog can only speculate as to the cause of the increase in aggressive behaviour, but a couple of years ago several chimpanzee populations became agitated by suggested similarities between the facial features of chimps and George Bush.
Also, The Guardian reports that recently released documents from the British National Archives reveal Winston Churchill’s wartime concern over the population size of the Barbary Apes of Gibraltar, which are actually a type of tail-less monkey rather than ape. Superstition held that were the monkeys to leave the rock the British Empire would fall. The Barbary Apes have had a more recent role in global politics: When the government of Morocco offered the US 2000 landmine-detecting monkeys to help in the war in Iraq, it was Barbary Apes who would have been drafted.