Monkey raid [1] is the corral and extermination of a significant number of wild monkeys in order to protect crops such as cereals, rice , bananas and citrus fruit trees. Such raids with government support were carried out in Sierra Leone [2] .
In 1965, Gerald Darrell organized a monkey raid in Sierra Leone during an animal gathering for the Jersey Zoo (now Darrell Wildlife Park ). This raid took place out of season, and its purpose was not the extermination of monkeys, but the capture of colobus . In his book about the expedition, published in 1972, he wrote that every year in Sierra Leone, two to three thousand monkeys are killed during raids, including “two species” of colobus, which are not harmful to cocoa plantations, and theoretically protected by law [3] . Species indicated by Darrell are now considered childbirth : black and white colobus and red and black colobus .
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- ↑ Gerald Darrell. Give me a colobus // Around the World, 01/01/1974 (Excerpts from the book)
- ↑ Bamforth, Enid. www.life.sierraleone.uk. - 2005. - ISBN 1-904985-24-6 .
- ↑ Durrell, Gerald. Catch me a colobus. - 1972. - P. 113–128. - ISBN 0-00-633264-1 .