Condo residents trained as 'monkey guards'

Together with security guards and volunteers, they use sticks to defend estate from the macaques

Ms Sabrina Jabbar, a primate researcher at the Jane Goodall Institute Singapore, training volunteers to become monkey guards at Dairy Farm Estate.
Ms Sabrina Jabbar, a primate researcher at the Jane Goodall Institute Singapore, training volunteers to become monkey guards at Dairy Farm Estate. ST PHOTO: JONATHAN CHOO
The condo’s monkey guards are also trained to identify the alpha males that lead the various monkey troops as well as
their regular foraging routes. PHOTO: SABRINA JABBAR
Janice Tai
Social Affairs Correspondent
Updated
Aug 18, 2018, 08:05 AM
Published
Aug 18, 2018, 05:00 AM
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At the Dairy Farm Estate condominium in Upper Bukit Timah, its residents, security guards and animal-loving volunteers take on duties as "monkey guards".

Thrice a week, they patrol the grounds to defend the condo against incursions from monkeys from surrounding forests.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 18, 2018, with the headline Condo residents trained as 'monkey guards'. Subscribe

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