Unemployed to sterilize monkeys in India
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A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.
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[World News]: New York, Dec 16 : India has once again proved itself as the land of contradictions as scientists have now discovered a new species of monkey in Arunachal Pradesh, despite the fact that India has some of the fastest retreating forest lands.
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The largest known population of rare, gray-shanked doucs has been discovered in a remote part of Vietnam, raising the prospect the endangered monkeys can be saved from extinction, scientists said Tuesday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwest Missouri woman has asked the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to allow her to take her pet monkey into local restaurants as a service animal.
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GURGAON, India, Jan. 29 -- Three weeks ago, Mohammad Saleem, 33, agreed to work at a construction site in this bustling city near New Delhi. A house painter with an extended family of eight, he was drawn here by the promise of an extra dollar in his daily wage. After a few days of waiting in a bl...
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India, struggling to promote greater condom use among its population, is looking to hire its own &quot;condom man&quot; to follow the example of a former Thai cabinet minister who successfully pushed for safer sex, the Times of India reported.
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'A good knowledge of Excel' a must, naturally The Irish readers among you pondering a radical change of career could do worse than consider this vacancy down at Dublin-based Global Fruit Co. Ltd, which is currently a bit short-handed in its banana-ripening department:â¦
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Â· Zoo birds culled after complaints about noise Â· Horrified locals side with animal rights activists
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India's brightest used to line up for U.S. jobs. No longer.
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India's drive to adopt a western economic model is threatening those who make their living from the jungle.
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Nearly a third of the world's apes and monkeys are threatened with extinction because of human activity, much of it illegal, a World Conservation Union report concludes.
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Authorities in Puerto Rico are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys &#151; descendants of escaped research animals &#151; and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them.
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Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
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An Indian policeman charged with guarding industrial plants in the state of West Bengal has had his salary cut for failing to stop his guard dog from becoming pregnant, officials said on Thursday.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - Forest guards in western India  are using cell phones with ringtones of cows mooing, goats  bleating and roosters crowing to attract leopards that have  wandered into human settlements, officials said on Monday.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDayNews) -- A vaccine against a sperm-related protein made male monkeys temporarily infertile, an approach that might lead to a contraceptive for men, researchers report.
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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.