Ahmedabad Airport Staff Dress As Bears To Scare Away Loitering Langurs, Watch Video

Ever since humans started encroaching open areas and destroying tree dense jungles in the name of development, the natural habitats of wild animals shrunk rapidly. Probably that’s the reason why we often see animals like tigers, cheetahs, elephants and langurs among others, wandering around in the city.

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Obviously, their presence has created a lot of discomfort and panic-like situation among the city-dwellers. Hence, people keep coming up with ways to tackle the increasing wild animal menace in their concrete jungle.

Fed up by the ‘monkey business’ of the uninvited langurs in Ahmedabad airport, the authorities came up with a unique plan. As reported by NDTV, an airport employee in Gujarat’s Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport decided to scare away a group of monkeys from the grounds by dressing as a bear. In the video shared online, an airport staff, dressed as a bear, was seen chasing away a group of monkeys from the grounds of the airport on Friday.

Talking about the unique plan to tackle the monkey problem, Airport Director Manoj Gangal said, “Langurs are scared of bears and so we made a costume. When our staff member wore it and tried to scare the langurs, they started running away. So this is a good and successful experiment. We have been doing this from the past week.”

The employee, identified as Jaldeep Kapdi, a supervisor at the airport says that the costume is effective. “There is an increase in the number of langurs in the area, there are several reports on it too. It becomes a problem for the flight to take off when the langurs come on the runway, which is why this costume is effective,” Jaldeep reportedly said.

Adding that the langurs usually come in the morning and at sunset, Jaldeep said, “When the monkeys come, I wear the costume and clear the operation area so there is no problem in landing or take off.”

Well, this isn’t the first time that people tried this trick. Earlier, UP villagers dressed up in bear costumes to scare away 2000 monkeys terrorizing the village. But if it’s working then people should start using it in other places too, don’t you think?

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