1. Introduction
India has traditionally been considered as heartland of rhesus monkeys. It is distributed
throughout the northern India upto some extent of central India, in a wide variety of habitat
including tropical moist deciduous forest to subtropical pine belt of sub Himalayas,
semidesert of Rajasthan, Mangrove swamps of Sunderban, West Bengal (Prakash & Krishna
1960; Mandal 1964; Mukherjee & Gupta 1965; Nevelle 1968; Imam 2000).