Himachal Pradesh High Court, August 31, 2023 directed the Animal Welfare Board of India under the control of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying) to give practical suggestions to Himachal Pradesh regarding control of the monkey menace and also the stray dogs menace …
While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction.
The main threat to the survival of primates in Sumatra is habitat destruction, but there is also an increasing problem of conflict with local people due to crop-raiding. This study characterizes the perceived impacts of primate crop-raiding in four villages in North Sumatra. Ninety-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect …
Around 2,500 monkeys in Madaripur are facing acute food crisis as the "Programme for protection and development of endangered monkeys in Char Muguria area" ended on June 30. Quite a few monkeys have already died due to food crisis while many mother monkeys, passing days starved or half-starved, are even …
Thick vegetation, garbage dumped around the airport by residents makes it an ideal feeding ground Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Authorities of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport are a worried lot with reports of bird hits on the rise. And, not just birds, even stray dogs and monkeys can be …
It is agriculture that brought malaria with it if humans had not abandoned their nomadic ways for agriculture, two important events would be missing from the history of civilization: deforestation and domestication of animals. Man would also not have heard of diseases like aids and swine flu. In 2007, the …
New Delhi: Researchers in Malaysia have confirmed infections among humans with the Plasmodium knowlesi strain of malaria, which till now was believed to only infect monkeys, in particular the long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques. According to a study published in
Rajesh Singh, the alleged mastermind behind the marmoset theft, had struck a deal with a 72-year-old man in Pune to sell the rare monkeys, police said on Monday.
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA One of the accused in the theft of eight exotic monkeys from the Alipore Zoological Garden on August 9 was remanded in police custody for 10 days here on Sunday. Sujoy Das, alias Bubai, was apprehended from his Dum Dum residence late on Saturday evening and produced …
Seven of the eight marmosets stolen from Alipore Zoo on August 9 were recovered by a crime branch team of Durg in Chhattisgarh tonight. One person has been arrested and is being questioned by Chhattisgarh police. The newly elected director of Alipore Zoo, Raju Das, said:
Forest officials on Thursday started operation to trap the monkey, after residents of Baye-Surla in Bicholim strongly protested against forest department
KOLKATA: The city police are seeking assistance of Interpol to track down those responsible for the theft of eight exotic Brazilian marmoset monkeys from Alipore Zoo here on August 9. It is suspected that the monkeys might have been smuggled out of the country or stolen by those having links …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: The director of the Alipore Zoological Gardens, Subir Chaudhuri, was suspended here on Monday evening even as the authorities of the State
Kolkata: Police went on a wild-goose chase throughout Monday to recover the 8 common marmosets stolen from the Alipore zoo on Sunday, even as reports of sightings surfaced from all over the city and the outskirts. The police also arrested two zoo guards
Kolkata: Eight Brazilian monkeys found in only two zoos in India were stolen on Saturday night from Alipore Zoological Gardens. The theft of the Common Marmosets
Ananya Dutta Kolkata: Eight Brazilian marmoset monkeys were stolen from the Alipore Zoological Gardens after the netting of the enclosure in which they were kept was prised open on Saturday night, zoo authorities said here on Sunday.
Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection. They found evidence the parasite that causes most cases of malaria is a close genetic relative of a parasite …
