MUMBAI: A month after a “severely” injured monkey had been rescued from Chembur, it has had a miraculous recovery and is all set to be released into the wild.
The young monkey was unable to use its body below the shoulder. Nearly paralyzed, it had been rehabilitated at the Thane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) since its rescue on March 27. “Now, the monkey is prancing on all fours. It should be released in a day or two,” said Pawan Sharma, president of Resquink Association for Wildlfe Welfare. “But earlier, we feared that this monkey would be permanently immobile and it would have to be confined permanently to a rehabilitation home.” While animal activists are happy about the 180-deg ree turn that this simian has shown, they expressed concern over the rising number of monkeys needing rescue and the lack of space to rehabilitate them.