{"id":49170,"date":"2025-07-31T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49170\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:52:10","slug":"why-monkey-sightings-are-on-the-rise-and-how-to-keep-from-being-an-easy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49170\/","title":{"rendered":"Why monkey sightings are on the rise, and how to keep from being an easy target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: In Almond Estate, in the west of Singapore, wild thieves have stolen virtually everything under the sun, from medicine to cosmetics to vehicle parts.<\/p>\n<p>Residents Pankaj Kumar and Alka Verma had the wing mirrors on their car stolen twice. That cost them between S$200 and S$300. It also happened to their neighbours and even a visitor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, a guest\u2019s car was just here, and \u2026 by the time I rushed to the car, both mirrors were gone,\u201d recounted Verma.<\/p>\n<p>The married couple now hand out mirror covers to their guests who park in the estate, which is made up of mainly landed homes.<\/p>\n<p>Their household was one of five that reached out to the programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RBQTxvfrbEM&amp;t=2s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Point<\/a> after repeated monkey intrusions. \u201cYou\u2019re looking at the monkeys, and they\u2019re on the top of the trees, laughing at you with the mirrors,\u201d said Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only the case with us. Most of our neighbours have faced issues of monkeys taking away vitamins or cosmetics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: In Almond Estate, in the west of Singapore, wild thieves have stolen virtually everything under the sun,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,38163,79,201],"class_list":["post-49170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-cna-insider","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}