--- title: Monkey Men in New Delhi India description: Monkey Men entice marauding monkeys to leave by impersonating the sounds of the aggressive langur monkey. canonical: https://time.com/3149030/monkey-men-new-delhi-india/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-21T14:53:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:36.728Z og:title: These Men Are Hired by The Indian Government to Talk to Monkeys og:description: "Monkey Men" impersonate the animals to shoo them away from buildings in New Delhi og:url: https://time.com/3149030/monkey-men-new-delhi-india/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7bb1a128ae59670/6986a03f55a85937b0a823c1/453323354.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: In this photograph taken on August 5, 2014, monkeys gather on a fence in the backyard of a home in New Delhi. The government has hired 40 "monkey wallahs", an Indian term that roughly translates as monkey men, who mimic the aggressive langur, the natura og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Men Are Hired by The Indian Government to Talk to Monkeys twitter:description: "Monkey Men" impersonate the animals to shoo them away from buildings in New Delhi twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7bb1a128ae59670/6986a03f55a85937b0a823c1/453323354.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Men Are Hired by The Indian Government to Talk to Monkeys by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 21, 2014 2:53 PM UTC  In this photograph taken on August 5, 2014, monkeys gather on a fence in the backyard of a home in New Delhi. The government has hired 40 "monkey wallahs", an Indian term that roughly translates as monkey men, who mimic the aggressive langur, the natural enemy of the smaller rhesus macaques who wreck havoc. In this photograph taken on August 5, 2014, monkeys gather on a fence in the backyard of a home in New Delhi. The government has hired 40 "monkey wallahs", an Indian term that roughly translates as monkey men, who mimic the aggressive langur, the natural enemy of the smaller rhesus macaques who wreck havoc.SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 21, 2014 2:53 PM UTC Have a monkey infestation problem? If you’re around Delhi, India, you might want to call up Mahendra Goswami. He is a ‘Monkey Walla,’ or ‘Monkey Man,’ one of the many men hired by the Indian government to shoo monkeys away from buildings and areas where people are present. These men entice monkeys to leave by impersonating the sounds of the aggressive langur monkey, often wearing a mask and hiding behind trees, according to the [AFP](http://www.afp.com/en/node/2683444). Monkeys in Delhi have been known to trash homes and gardens and have even attacked people while looking for food. \[[AFP](http://www.afp.com/en/node/2707200)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3149030/monkey-men-new-delhi-india/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3149030/monkey-men-new-delhi-india/"},"headline":"These Men Are Hired by The Indian Government to Talk to Monkeys","datePublished":"2014-08-21T14:53:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:36.728Z","description":"\"Monkey Men\" impersonate the animals to shoo them away from buildings in New Delhi","url":"https://time.com/3149030/monkey-men-new-delhi-india/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","India","monkeys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7bb1a128ae59670/6986a03f55a85937b0a823c1/453323354.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7bb1a128ae59670/6986a03f55a85937b0a823c1/453323354.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In this photograph taken on August 5, 2014, monkeys gather on a fence in the backyard of a home in New Delhi. 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