Results shown in Table 3 revealed t

Results shown in Table 3 revealed that rhesus are distributed in diverse categories of habitat;
from road side to temple premises. It can be observed that maximum numbers of rhesus were
found in urban areas. Aligarh city supports 1988 individuals of rhesus monkey distributed in
43 groups. It seems that people of urban areas are well aware about the protection provided to
rhesus monkeys by wild life protection act (WPA, 1972), so that they don’t want to hurt or
kill them. Rhesus macaques are kept in schedule III of WPA (1972) and its killing/hunting is
punishable. However, other habitats are also supporting fairly good number of rhesus
monkeys.