KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, April 13: A langur has strayed into the heart of the steel city in Bistupur on Thursday, creating curiosity among the local residents.
It was a huge langur with a long tail and black face which jumped from one household to another in the backyard of the residential quarters situated close to Bistupur main road. Though the langur made its presence felt in Bistupur for hours together, no one did complain of any harm caused by it. The last time it was seen while it jumped into the backyard of a vacant residential quarter having a huge mango tree inside on L-Road.
Before anchoring under the canopy of the tree into the vacant house, the langur was seen quenching his thirst from a water tub kept in the alleyway.
A resident Sunita Kumari claimed that she had seen another baboon, which was a smaller one in the locality, suggesting that it was a troop of langurs that might have strayed into the steel city.
One of the residents has even contacted DFO, Jamshedpur, Mamta Priyadarshi about the arrival of the langurs in the Bistupur locality.
“It was worth informing the forest department officer about the presence of langur in the city because the life of this speechless animal could be in danger. Let the forest department catch the langur safely and leave it to either Dalma Hills or any other adjoining forest the department may consider suitable for langur,” said the resident requesting anonymity while talking to lagatar24.com.
Langur which comes under Schedule II species of the Wildlife Protection Act is known to move around in troops.
