Thirty people recruited by the city council will imitate the cries of monkeys that breed in New Delhi.

About 30 “monkey men” have been deployed to New Delhi to scare away the rhesus macaques that breed there and prevent them from disrupting the G20 summit to be held in the Indian capital in early September, the local government announced on Wednesday.

The New Delhi City Council has recruited between 30 and 40 “monkey men” to mimic the cries of langur monkeys, natural enemies of the rhesus macaques that have invaded the Indian capital, where a G20 summit is to be held on September 9 and 10.

Satish Upadhyay, deputy chairman of the city council, told AFP on Wednesday that we cannot drive the monkeys out of their natural habitat. Therefore, we have deployed a team of 30 to 40 trained people to scare the monkeys. New Delhi.

“We will deploy a man in each hotel where the delegates will be staying, as well as in places where monkeys are frequently seen,” he added.

Specific action plan

Worried that the monkeys might attack foreign leaders’ convoy of cars during the G20 summit, or that they would devour the flower decorations, the city government asked the forest department to come up with an action plan.

Life-size silhouettes of langurs have also been installed on the streets of India’s capital to scare off primates.

For a long time, men patrolled the streets of New Delhi accompanied by trained langurs, but this practice ended after a court ruled that detaining them was cruel.