This is shocking really. It is sad. Surely this is a breakdown in the human-animal relationship? It was brought on by the Covid pandemic as there are no tourists to feed the monkeys and so they starve. Then there is a mad rush to a source of food when it appears.

Starving monkeys in India due to the Covid-19 pandemic. No tourists, no food handouts. Screenshot.

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