While we face the “monkey-challenges” at Cardamom County other forms of agriculture (or in this case, animal husbandry) have found forms of “primate collaboration”.

Thanks to The Hindu‘s K.A. Shaji for this timely story.

The term ‘monkey shepherd’ may not sound absurd here. A female monkey, aged about eight years, and her two children shepherd a flock of 150 goats on a farm at this picturesque hill station in Palakkad.

Named Mani, the monkey has emerged as an added attraction at the tourist spot with waterfalls, plantation walks, trekking and different forms of adventure tourism. Mani and her children keep the flock from going astray in the forests.

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