Our city is filled up with a variety of
wildkinds which exist in and around human habitat, out of them the most
successful are the monkeys. Our country regards the monkeys as the messengers
of the most powerful god ‘Hanuman’. Royal treatment is given to the monkeys
from food to shelter maximum is provided by we humans. But somewhere we forget that
they are wild animals and interfering in their life is actually unethical.
We feed them with fruits, sweets and other
eatables and thus attract them towards us and by doing this we feel that we are
doing a great job and in return god will definitely shower his blessings on us.
It is very stupid when highly educated people also follow the same trend,
feeding the wild animals and at the end calling trouble for ourselves.
Monkeys are very smart animals and very
well know the art of survival, and that is reflected from the current
population of them. Many suburbs of our city share a boundary with the national
park which is the actual habitat of the monkeys, but today they have started
living within the city limits too. This thus is not a positive indication as
wildkinds are coming closer to the humans which indeed is not safe as well as
correct according to the life in a city.
But the main problem arises when the good,
gentle monkeys turn out to be mischievous and start troubling us, entering
houses and grabbing all possible eatables, destroying well maintained kitchens,
splashing food and water here and there and finally ending up attacking the
humans. The rule of the wild says that how cool and calm the behaviour of the
animal is we should not try to judge them. Wildlife is unpredictable and we
should accept it and act according with it, by entertaining them we only call
trouble for us. The simplest way to treat any wildlife inside the city is to
just leave it alone, forest is its house and it will definitely return there if
we do not attract it here.
No matter if it is injured or in distress
it is very important to get it rescued but just by spotting a monkey it is
again a stupid act calling on helpline numbers to get it removed and relocated.
We should act responsible as a society and respect the wildkind by just letting
it go and not try to feed, follow, provoke or trouble it. But what we do is
start cornering or surrounding the animal, throw stones on it, try attracting
it and when it gets attracted and starts its activities it no longer remains
fun and excitement.
They are protected under the Wildlife
Protection Act of 1972 and thus we should bring it under our kind notice that
hunting, killing or making an attempt to do so will land us behind the bars.
Trying to keep it as a pet, catching or transporting it is also an offence and
will lead similar charges on one. And
once when these animals start causing trouble for the mankind then the god
within it disappears, people start killing it , demanding to catch, trap, tranquilize
and relocate it to the forest and during this process the animal goes through
severe trauma ending up its life or getting badly injured. We all know how much
our city has provisions to maintain and treat the injured kinds and thus at the
end we as a society fail to understand our responsibility and perform our duty.
So the facts say that the humans are the
ones because of whom the conflicts with starts leading to the loss of
wilderness available in the city. Human errors on various levels from a common
man to an authority have all together highly disturbed the whole atmosphere of
wild in and around the city. If we
really were sensible then we would never end up doing this what we are doing
today.
A monkey is a very beautiful animal which
plays a very important part in the ecosystem where it is present. We don’t need
to be big naturalists, researchers or wildlife experts to enjoy the wild
beauty. One can explore the wild by just respecting it with sense and simplicity,
rather than complicating the situation as we always do.
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