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The usual human/wildlife conflict cases involving elephants, leopards, hippos, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles or lions have taken a break as conflict between humans and monkeys take centre stage.
That monkeys now bite humans and cause bodily harm is surreal. Yet 15 cases of bloody monkey attacks have been reported in Trans-Nzoia, in the last two months. Cases of monkeys biting people go beyond Kenya. Less than a week ago, an unstoppable monkey attacked a woman at a shopping mall in India, and snatched her shoe after climbing onto her head, pulling her hair and biting her. On January 9, in Japan, a monkey bit a man as he enjoyed an afternoon jog.
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