Though President Obama's trip has yet to face any major setbacks, New Delhi forces aren't taking any chances in battling one of the city's most unusual threats -- packs of stray monkeys, which have been known to bite children and terrorize government offices.
It chokes rivers, scars meadows, contaminates streets and feeds a vast and dangerous ecosystem of rats, mosquitoes, stray dogs, monkeys and pigs.
Snakes, stray dogs and monkeys are the latest problem for officials rushing to complete work at the athletes' village in Delhi.
That deep, palm-prickling fear is an evolutionary leftover – a baby monkey straying alone by night is probably a baby monkey snapped up in a lunge and a squeal by a grateful nocturnal carnivore.
And between the dots, he might have found invisible connectedness, the glue that binds humans, monkeys, stray dogs, vegetation.
The nannies, belles and beaux, the playful pet monkey, even the stray dog foraging picnic crumbs in the foreground, are locked into themselves.
Malcolm Pryce's The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth, also set in Wales, is the third book in his Welsh noir series, and features private eye Louie Knight, a monkey, mad nuns and stray waifs.
The market cats of INA, the friendly stray dogs in Mehrauli, the urban monkeys of Mayur Vihar all have very vivid and real lives, so it was just a question of eavesdropping on them.
The Supreme Court ordered wildlife authorities to deport nearly 300 rhesus monkey captured during a drive against stray animals in the capital, New Delhi, to forests in Madhya Pradesh, thousands of miles away, the newspaper The Hindu reported.
He has plenty of stray dogs, free-ranging goats, and crop-fed monkeys to pick.
