{"id":57966,"date":"2023-09-01T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/langurs-cutouts-deter-rhesus-monkeys-g20-delhi-2023"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:02:03","slug":"cutouts-of-menacing-langurs-employed-to-deter-rhesus-monkeys-ahead-of-g20-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57966","title":{"rendered":"Cutouts of menacing langurs employed to deter rhesus monkeys ahead of G20 in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi municipal council has also deployed \u201830 to 40 people\u2019 to make monkey sounds to create the impression that the animals are alive<\/p>\n<p>Lifesize cutouts of langurs have sprung up in several parts of New Delhi over the last few days as officials look to prevent the smaller rhesus monkeys from disrupting the G20 summit that will take place next week.<\/p>\n<p>Rhesus monkeys are a menace in many areas in India\u2019s national capital, running across busy roads without warning \u2013 putting both themselves and motorists at risk \u2013 and often attacking unsuspecting pedestrians or residents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/langurs-cutouts-deter-rhesus-monkeys-g20-delhi-2023\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi municipal council has also deployed \u201830 to 40 people\u2019 to make monkey sounds to create the impression that the animals are aliveLifesize cutouts of langurs have sprung up in several parts of New Delhi over the last few days as officials look t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-57966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57966\/revisions\/57967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}