Just a quick one today. A few weeks ago the London Olympics opened up the registration for volunteers at the games. They are looking for some where in the region of 10,000 people over the whole games, thats before, during and after both the main Olympics and the Paralympics. It's campaign is supposedly aiming to have the largest number of volunteers at a single event ever, surpassing previous Olymipc Games and other major events such as the Live 8 concerts. The London Olympic Comitee have given volunteers a new name for this olympics 'Game Makers' in an attempt to get more people involved. But when I woke up this morning I found that the Delhi Commonwealth Games have decided to rope in something different to deal with one of it's problems, monkeys.
Delhi authorities have deployed a contingent of large black-faced langur monkeys at the Commonwealth Games venues to scare away smaller simians. At least 10 langurs have been on duty outside some of the venues in the Indian capital, reports say. Delhi civic authorities have 28 langurs and 10 more have been brought in from the neighbouring Rajasthan state. Langurs are an aggressive type of monkey with long tails and dark faces. They are controlled on leads by specially trained handlers, who release them once other monkeys are seen.
I can't imagine this going down too well with some animal activist but they probably would be easier to organise that a bunch of volunteers and most likely do a better job. If you are interested in being a games maker than go to this website here.
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