people are agreed that population of rhesus monkey has increased manifold in Aligarh district
during last 5-10 years. People, right from rural to urban areas are facing problems created by
monkeys. Eighty five percent of respondents from city area feel that food snatching,
especially from children and women, are the main problem created by monkeys, where as
60% people consider that monkey bite in city area is one of the severe problems. On the other
hand 54% of people considerer that property damage by monkeys are another problems faced
by local people. Crop damage is one of another problems created by monkeys, however, only
few peoples are agree with this (14-32%). About 52% of respondent consider that monkey
menace is unbearable and it has just stolen the mental peace of the local people. Monkeys are
not only creating social problems but may be carrier for many communicable diseases. Sixty
two percent of respondent have seen that monkeys are suffering from cough and cold,
whereas, 78% reported that some of the monkeys are having skin problem. Diarrhea is also
reported by 35% of respondent. People from local area have been fading up with the
problems continuously created by monkey; therefore, they need some solution. About 17-
56% of respondent are agreed that people are using some of non-destructive measures; like
patrolling by dog, use of cracker and fencing the house premises by iron grills to minimize
the monkey problems. But 80-90% of respondents feel that Government must take some
permanent measures to solve the monkey menace, therefore, they favour trapping of monkeys
from their area and shifting them to elsewhere. However, inspite of unbearable problems
created by monkeys, local people does not support killing or culling of monkeys (Imam and
Yahya, 2002).