Monkey’s body parts, nipples painted white
Monkey covered in paint may be shunned by its troop and attacked says local primate carer.
A VERVET monkey that was painted white over the weekend could be targeted by its troop because of its peculiar appearance, the Vervet Haven’s, Joan Chalmers said today. The female monkey which was allegedly caught, had its back, head, front paws and nipples painted white.
The urban myth alleges that a painted monkey will scare the troop away.
Joan said far from scaring her troop away, the monkey would now be shunned, making her highly visible to her enemies. What’s more the mother is not able to breastfeed her infant.
The Durban North resident questioned how someone could display such cruelty.
“Hopefully there were no children around to witness this behaviour as we have enough bullying in schools at present. What did she do? Steal a banana or a piece of bread?” the infuriated resident said.
Chalmers added the female was still travelling with the troop at present and other monkeys had tried to help remove the paint by grooming her.
To the people who painted the monkey, Chalmers said: “Monkeys live by reward and blame. You are now to blame for her being vulnerable and you made her lose her standing in the troop so that she can only eat last and will now be susceptible to illness. How can someone who lives in the Durban North area be so ignorant and uneducated to believe in the painted monkey myth?”
Need to catch the culprits. Hold them down and paint their body parts and faces with indelible ink or similar that can never be erased.
Monkeys are a daily menace but that is just pure cruelty.
Not only are the Duran North Troops targeted with such cruelty.. we have a resident actually shooting and killing them! One was shot last Friday and killed. This cannot continue and people must own up if they know who is responsible for such evil deeds towards our Vervets!
People out there are really ruthless.I mean, monkey or not, but how in the world do you deprive a child of food?! How would the perpetrator feel if the same was done to them, and they couldn’t feed their child?!
How can people be so cruel? This is so sad. I hope the people responsible for this receive their karma 3 fold.
Just let nature just “be” whether in urban areas or not…..there are much more important things to worry about than poor monkies……live in peace and harmony people…life is too short for inane things, for crying out aloud!!!!!
Which damn savage painted this poor animal. Can you honestly blame her walking our streets looking for food. Who ever did this to her needs feel ashamed of himself.