According to a Reuters report two monkeys tied the knot in the forests of northwestern India on Friday.
Worship of animals as avatars of the gods isn’t new in Hindu beliefs. Monkeys enjoy significant role in Hindu mythology where they are worshiped as avatars of Hanuman, the mighty ape that helped Rama in his fight against evil.
Raju, the “groom,” was famous in his village, attracting crowds wherever he went. He was known for eating, sleeping and smoking cigarettes with his owner, Ramesh Saini, who treated him like a son.
Two months ago Saini met soon-to-be-bride Chinki’s caretaker, a priest in a nearby village, who proposed the marriage of the two monkeys.
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Well that was a strange sentence.
This story is a bit strange but at the same time understandable of getting the monkeys married. It’s their belief I guess and kinda shows as well that animals can get the same affection as us sometimes or even more affection lol.
At the same time its not very nice forcing animals to do things and also chaining them up or tying them to a tree isn’t good at all.
at first i thought the monkey had wed a person!
This is exactly the type of thing I would expect to hear on Karl Pilkington’s Monkey News. XD
Please let animals be animals and us humans be humans (as weird as some of us are)