
Namita, a middle-aged woman who lives
in India’s north-eastern Tripura state and is a government worker, describes
Buru, her pet monkey, as her third child.
Yes,
I breastfeed him. He is my son,” says Namita, caressing the monkey.
More
than four years ago, her woodcutter husband found a dying baby monkey
under a tree after a fierce storm. He brought the animal home in
Chandrapur village on the outskirts of the...