I live in a city on
the outskirts of Mumbai which is near to the National Park. So nocturnal visits
by the big cats are common in our area. Proliferation of street dogs is an
added attraction to lure the big cats. The street dogs have proliferated so
much that they are trespassing into the housing complexes.
The newest addition
to this trespassing problem are the simians residing in neighboring woods. The
street dogs consider the boundary walls of the housing complexes as their
territories and don’t take kindly to these new intruders. Thus ensue barking
and hissing encounters between the two trespassing species which are watched by
‘wfh’ species from the safe environs of their closed windows.
However this uneasy
but non-violent environment has been breached in some other city in Maharashtra.
A pack of street
dogs happened to kill a kid from the simian species. That too, in front of a
pack of simians. And all hell broke lose.
I think the simians
had binged on the 80’s revenge dramas of Bollywood. At last count, the simians have
put more than 200 pups to death by kidnapping them and then flinging them to
the ground from the heights, of trees nearby. The dogs don’t know what has hit
them and are losing this grisly gang war with the simians. The forest
department run by the human species is in a quandary and struggling to bring about
a truce.
Yatindra Tawde
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