Monkey Set To Inherit Millions After 'Parent's' Death

 

An adopted monkey of a childless couple will inherit their property worth millions when they die.

The monkey, named Chunmun, has been raised like a son by his human owners Brajesh Srivastava and wife Shabista since his mother died in 2005.

His inheritance will include a house worth 7 million rupees ($112,000), a 182 metre plot of land and millions of rupees in a trust fund which will help animals in need.

"The trust will feed monkeys in the forests who are suffering and are starving due to cutting down of forests, and have been removed from their natural habitat," Ms Srivastava says.

The couple consider Chunmun to be their lucky charm, saying they've only had prosperity since he came into their lives.

That prosperity has apparently also conferred on him something of a pampered lifestyle, according to local news media,

Chunmun, like a pampered child, has his favorites and things he does not like. The monkey has daily intake of fruits in good quantity, however he likes stir-fried noodles; chow mein and chilli paneer gravy most.

Brajesh also said that Chunmun has been given air conditioner-fitted rooms in the house and that he does not like sleeping without AC during summers and without hot air blowers during winters.

The couple, who live in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, adopted Chunmun after his mother fell out of a high place after apparently being electrocuted. Chunmun survived, and soon became like a son to the otherwise childless pair.

“He was a baby then, less than a month old, and his mother had died after being electrocuted,” Shabista Srivastava told the BBC.

In 2010, it was time for Chunmun to marry, so the couple threw a “lavish” wedding for him and a female monkey named Bitti Yadav, the BBC reported:

The two monkeys live together at the couple’s home, and have a party for their wedding anniversary every year.

Brajesh and Shabista Srivastava  had been isolated from their family after their parents disapproved a marriage of a Hindu man and a Muslim woman, so they decided to leave it all to their only “child.”