In the city of Jodhpur, at the edge of the Thar, or Great Indian, Desert, some 2,100 wild langurs regularly leap into human society to sample its goods. Local Hindus share picnics in parks and ...

Name game: The golden langur's scientific name, Trachypithecus geei, honours the famous Indian zoologist, G. H. Ghosh, who first identified the species in 1953. Jumping champs: These monkeys are ...

The Indian Coffee House in Shimla, established in the 1950s, has long been a meeting place for locals and tourists. Managed ...

Life-size cut-outs of grey langur monkeys - which scare smaller monkeys - have been put up at various places and there are plans to deploy people trained to mimic the animal's sounds. Delhi has a ...