‘Reduce population of wild monkeys with birth control pills’


KUALA LUMPUR: Wild monkeys have become a nuisance to villagers and among ways to humanely reduce their population is by distributing birth control pills to the primates, proposed a PKR MP.

Datuk Johari Abdul (PH-Sungai Petani) said wild monkeys have been disturbing villagers in his constituency and the people are often caught in a dilemma, as killing the wild monkeys would be considered inhumane.

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