Standing guard: A man holding a fire torch and walking around his home in a mask to chase away toque macaques from his garden in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka in this filepic. — AFP
The country counted more than seven million monkeys during a census of crop-destroying wildlife, authorities said on Thursday, after a government minister called the figure “unbelievable”.
Agrarian Research and Training Institute (Arti) Chief Executive A.L. Sandika said that the refined data was in line with a previous survey “a few years ago”, but did not elaborate.
