Orchid-Gathering Monkey
From the The Hindu:
How did the botanist train the monkey to grab all those orchids? Well, it took six months. Much harder than teaching a monkey to do dishes.
Sadly, as the previous link mentions, Hanumanthu was beaten to death by a policeman when the monkey was being used by a street performer. Rao tried to train a replacement, but "it is not obedient. It eats up the entire banana and refuses to do the work. However my field work has come to end point there is no necessary to train a monkey or its young one which is not obedient to do its work. For some period I had hired two tribal men for my fieldwork, but nobody is as good as Hanuman."
[By the way, what does the "-thu" at the end of Hanumanthu's name mean? Is it like "little Hanuman"?]
1 comment:
About the modifier for Hanuman - its common in many parts of South India to modify a noun to evoke a feeling of the local language.
Example: Srinivas is a common name around South India. It can be modified to Srinivasulu (Telugu), Srinivasan (Tamil), Srinivasa (Kannada).
Hanuman can be Hanumanthudu (as God), Hanumanthulu (as person), Hanumanan etc
Have fun in your wanderings. I must go now and wander someplace else :) I liked your blog.
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