NBC’s Ian Williams blogs on a capital problem and the efforts being made to solve it
Sankar Masthri is a monkey catcher. It says so on his business card. “Monkey, Dog Hunter,” it reads, together with little drawings of his targets and his cell phone number. The phone’s ringing a lot these days, as India’s capital tries to rid itself of an exploding primate population that’s accused of all kinds of mayhem. “Problem is, monkeys [are] getting smart,” Masthri said, as we watched from a distance as one audacious monkey leaned inside a cage baited with bananas and made away with the food before Masthri could pull a wire to close the hatch and trap it.
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