It started some months ago – a battle between stray dogs and monkeys. In what can be termed as “revenge killings” a troop of monkeys from a nearby forest descended on Lavool village in Maharashtra’s Beed district and started killing dogs there. The genesis of this “hate crime” lies in the killing of an infant monkey by a pack of dogs from the village. Since that day over four months ago, the monkeys have killed as many as 100 puppies from Lavool village in Majalgaon.