One of my new favorite past times in Delhi is to count the number of animals I see on any given day. On the weekends I usually see more since my weekdays usually just involve me going to/from the office which is on a pretty busy road and not very animally. This morning, however, I did see 4 cows...one of which was walking into traffic and kept walking to our car no matter how much my driver moved. Finally we slowed to a crawl and got past him...silly cow.
This weekend I saw some goats and pigs and a monkey. Well, not so much pigs as hogs. I don't know what the actual difference is but these guys are big and look like they have fur and they aren't cute...so I call them hogs. I saw about 8 of them, with a few piglets too (hoglets?).
Last weekend I had my second ferret sighting...quite tricky to see because they move really quickly and stay hidden, and I saw my peacocks again; this time I had my camera so you have a picture today...there are two in the photo, one is kind of hidden in the back.
As I was looking at the hogs though I couldn't help but wonder about them. At what point in time in the west did we move all of the wild animals (other than squirrels., etc) out of the cities? And will they ever do that here? The goats I see seem to be domesticated, I think people use them for their milk, but the hogs just kind of wander around. I feel badly for them. I think that the government should try to move them out of the city to somewhere greener where they can roam freely and have food to eat.
Much as I enjoy spotting animals in the city it doesn't seem like a good life for them, and they do quite often really mess up traffic. For now I'll just enjoy counting the animals and be happy my driver has good reaction time and can stop quickly for cows/goats/pigs that decide to stroll into the street
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