Monkey gets a woman mother in Tripura

A woman in Chandrapura Village near Tripuras Udaipur town is nurturing a female monkey as her own child.

By Pinaki Das

Chandrapura Village (Tripura), Nov.15 : A woman in Chandrapura Village near Tripura's Udaipur town is nurturing a female monkey as her own child.

Namita Ghosh, a mother of two daughters, has been extending motherly to the simian at par with her other two daughters.

Namita's eldest daughter spotted the simian underneath a tree in a pitiable condition. She brought it home.

Namita, an Anganwari worker (or, a government worker with social welfare department), noticed the simian was a newborn and looked like almost dying. Moved by the little simian's condition, her maternal instincts made her breast feed the baby to save its life.

"Its condition was very bad, as if the monkey would die. Everyone in our family was crying and so I told my younger daughter to make little oral saline and it licked it with its tongue," said Namita said.

"The next day I felt that milk formation had started in my breasts and informed it to my husband to which he laughed. But, astonishingly, by the evening I had started feeding milk to the baby monkey from my breasts. From that (moment) I adopted it as my child," she added.

Biswajit Das, a supervisor of the Social Welfare department appreciated Namita's emotion said, "We can't help feeling touched by her concern for the monkey. She believes it to be her own child. Namita is a quintessential Indian mother, ready to do anything to make her children happy."

The monkey has made Namita popular in her locality.

Namita and her husband together earn around rupees 1,500 every month. They barely manage to make ends meet but that does not deter Namita from bringing up the monkey.

ANI