TIRUPPUR: Several bonnet macaques have fallen ill at the foothills ... Forest department staff collected blood sample from a monkey and sent it to TANUVAS, Chennai, for test.

While ‘monkey menace’ is a term that is gaining traction across the Ghats, studies, such as this 2017 paper, have shown, paradoxically, that bonnet macaque populations may have declined by up ...

such as the bonnet macaque, which remain protected. They have said weakened protections have led to rising cases of monkeys being trafficked for social-media exploitation, used for entertainment ...