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India's Supreme Court is looking for staff to help deal with a plague of monkeys at its judges' homes.
As the dpa news agency reported, the Supreme Court called on companies in a statement on Friday to submit corresponding offers by March 24.
Local media had previously reported.
According to this, around 35 to 40 houses in a radius of three to four kilometers around the court would have to be protected from the monkeys.
The monkey repellers would be used as needed.
If the measures are successful, the contract with the companies could also be extended, it said.
In India, many rhesus monkeys live in the cities.
Again and again there are reports that they break into houses and take food or even children with them.
And they have already interrupted work in hospitals and courts and bitten employees.
The reason for the many monkeys in the cities is that people and their cities are increasingly expanding, taking away habitat and food from the animals.
The animals are increasingly pushing into urban zones.
Dealing with monkeys is difficult in the country of 1.3 billion people because the majority Hindu population worships the monkey god Hanuman, among other things - and honors and feeds monkeys on the street as his descendants.
The attempts to take action against annoying monkeys are manifold.
The police at the Taj Mahal, for example, already used slingshots against the primates.
Elsewhere, resettlement attempts were made.
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