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India’s monkeys are not behaving very much like gods these days. Normally, in many places around the country monkeys, especially rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), roam free in the streets and temples. They traditionally enjoy a large measure of respect and indulgence, even veneration, from the populace that stems from their association with the Hindu deity Hanuman. In the mythology of Hinduism, India’s majority religion, Hanuman is the monkey commander of an army of monkeys. As recounted in the great Hindu Sanskrit poem the Ramayana (“Romance of Rama”), Hanuman led his army to help Rama—an important Hindu god—recover Rama’s wife, Sita, from the demon Ravana, king of Lanka. In recognition of his services to Rama, Hanuman is upheld by Hindus as a model for all human devotion, and monkeys are
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