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**Pete789** · 10-07-2010, 11:37 AM

Friday October 8, 2010

Baby could have been mistaken for pet’s offspring

SEREMBAN: The macaque that abducted and bit a four-day-old baby here may have mistaken the newborn as the offspring of the family’s pet female monkey. State Wildlife and National Parks officer Zafifi Ramli said the monkey could have been provoked to attack the baby when it felt its position as the alpha male in the area threatened.

“The male may have been attracted to the female macaque kept by the family. It is possible that the monkey attacked the baby after it mistook the newborn for the female’s offspring when it felt its position as the alpha male was at stake,” he said. The last such incident, he said, was in 2008 when a kindergarten pupil survived an attack by a monkey in Taman Tuanku Ja’afar.

He said the department had received a complaint a year ago from Taman Happy Garden residents and had acted on it by trapping the monkeys that were being a menace. “We usually set traps and take the offending monkeys away but if the monkeys are aggressive and are a threat to security, we sometimes have no choice but to shoot them,” he said, adding that complaints had also been received from residents in Taman SEA, Taman Desa Ros and Taman Guru previously.

“Based on our investigations, we believe the monkey that was shot by our officers was the one responsible for the attack as it had traces of blood on its mouth,” he said. However, he could not confirm if the blood belonged to the infant or was from the injuries sustained by the monkey after it fell from the tree.

Earlier, Wildlife and National Parks Department director Ishak Muhamad said the family did not commit an offence by keeping the monkey as a pet. Seremban Municipal Council president Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Latif said such complaints were normally referred to the Wildlife Department as the council was not equipped to handle such cases.

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Pete789 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	Macaque abducts, bites and drops baby from roof Friday October 8, 2010 Baby could have been mistaken for pet’s offspring SEREMBAN: The macaque that abducted and bit a four-day-old baby here may have mistaken the newborn as the offspring of the family’s pet female monkey. State Wildlife and National Parks officer Zafifi Ramli said the monkey could have been provoked to attack the baby when it felt its position as the alpha male in the area threatened. “The male may have been attracted to the female macaque kept by the family. It is possible that the monkey attacked the baby after it mistook the newborn for the female’s offspring when it felt its position as the alpha male was at stake,” he said. The last such incident, he said, was in 2008 when a kindergarten pupil survived an attack by a monkey in Taman Tuanku Ja’afar. He said the department had received a complaint a year ago from Taman Happy Garden residents and had acted on it by trapping the monkeys that were being a menace. “We usually set traps and take the offending monkeys away but if the monkeys are aggressive and are a threat to security, we sometimes have no choice but to shoot them,” he said, adding that complaints had also been received from residents in Taman SEA, Taman Desa Ros and Taman Guru previously. “Based on our investigations, we believe the monkey that was shot by our officers was the one responsible for the attack as it had traces of blood on its mouth,” he said. However, he could not confirm if the blood belonged to the infant or was from the injuries sustained by the monkey after it fell from the tree. Earlier, Wildlife and National Parks Department director Ishak Muhamad said the family did not commit an offence by keeping the monkey as a pet. Seremban Municipal Council president Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Latif said such complaints were normally referred to the Wildlife Department as the council was not equipped to handle such cases.
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