New Delhi has all the usual troubles of a big city: pollution, traffic jams, poverty and crime. But it has another problem: monkeys.
Throughout the city, thousands of fearless rhesus monkeys roam, loitering at roadsides, swinging over walls, and hopping through windows in search of food.
Last week, the city's monkey catcher, Nand Lal, resigned.
'He was being harassed by an animal welfare group,' said a spokesman from the Municipal Corporation of New Delhi.
This was not surprising. After luring monkeys into a box, Mr Lal would take them to an overcrowded shed on the outskirts of the city, which animal charities have described as a 'monkey prison'.
Mr Lal's resignation is the latest in a string of defeats in New Delhi's battle with the monkeys.
Ten years ago, there were only a few simians in the city. But as the human population soared - up 50 per cent between 1991 and 2001, to 13.8 million now - suburbs and industrial developments subsumed forest areas, driving monkeys into the city.