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Monkey muscle brought in for metro security

Friday 04 August, 2006

India's Delhi Metro has been having a small problem with monkeys recently, so has come up with the most basic solution to stopping the little monsters. Get a bigger monkey.

Monkeys seemingly hop on and off trains (whether they pay their fare is unclear) at will in New Delhi, often upsetting human passengers by scowling and intimidating them as the people look to go about their daily business.

So the train company decided to hire the services of a bigger monkey to scare off the smaller troublemakers.

And the new langur monkey, who was trained since the age of three months for this ultimate monkey security mission, is apparently so far proving successful.

"It started working about a month ago and since then we've not had a single incident," said Anuj Dayal, a spokesman for the metro.

The monkey's keeper, who leads him up and down the station in a similar way to that of bouncers patrolling club doors on Saturday nights, gets paid 6,900 rupees a month for his services, equivalent to less than £80.

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