Heart-rending stories - Thane SPCA Rescues Our Primate Relatives, Victims of Our Urbanisation
Friends,
See attached photos of burnt, battered and electrocuted Rhesus monkeys, including a pregnant female. Please read the forwarded email that tells the stories of our fellow-primates, who are victims of the unstoppable growth of our dangerous cities into their safe forest territory.
When we are in school, we learn to take an oath that says, "All Indians are my brothers and sisters." Does the oath imply only human Indians? Or does it include all Indians, including non-humans?
If we think that only human Indians deserve consideration, then who will safeguard all our furry and feathered fellow-Indians who have the curse of sharing space with us? Are they to be treated as enemies and nuisances? Are they to be marginalized, battered, eradicated or confined to the prison camps that we call zoos?
Please read the forwarded message, look at the photos and reflect.
Warm Regards,
Krish
98215 88114
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shakuntala Majumdar <thanespca@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:04 AM
Subject: Victims of Urbanisation
Dear Friends of Thane SPCA
This is not the first time that we have admitted injured monkeys. In fact, being surrounded by the Yeoor hills and being the only animal Hospital in the entire district, we attend far too many calls to rescue injured monkeys.
We have rescued them when they were run over by vehicles, abandoned by Madaris, kept in chains illegally by private owners, the whole jingbang. But this is probably the first time we have had 2 of them so battered and burnt that it almost numbed us.
One is a female, beaten up by unknown slum dwellers for having entered their area. When we rushed to the spot, she could hardly move. She is in an advanced stage of pregnancy. She was so badly wounded that for the first few days she could not even keep her head up or open her mouth. She had lost vision in one eye and the other was swollen and closed. She had to be hand fed pureed fruits and water through a syringe. A week later, today our wildlife Surgeon gave her a very good progress report. It will be many more days before we can even think of rehabilitating her, but chances are good. May be by then, she will also give birth.
The other Rhesus macaque was not so lucky. Having entered the city, she was swaying from height to height and got electrocuted from a high tension wire. She was thrown down more than 70 ft. She sustained more than 70% burns on her body. What moved us most that even having sustained critical internal injuries as well as the burns, she was never aggressive for a day when she was dressed and treated by our doctors, while she lived. She passed away after 5 days in our care.
Probably the best thing that happened to her in recent times!!
In grief
Team Thane SPCA
9821520229
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