According to the environment change and climate warming, more and more kinds of animal becoming extinct. Some of these animals are just only native primates living in some place. So, lots of governments make laws to protect these animals which live in their countries. One of the animals in Taiwan is “Formosan rock macaque”, and you also can call it “Formosan rock monkey” or “Taiwanese macaque”.
In Taiwan, people can’t kill or hurt the “Formosan rock monkey” even the monkeys bring lots of troubles to human. Actually, here are more than 600,000 Taiwanese macaques in South of Taiwan, and we can hear some news of the disasters from the macaques. The macaques not only eat bananas but also have interesting in eating human’s food. Sometimes, we can find some rock monkeys eat crops and damage the farms, and all of these let the farmers have troubles to make money. That is a big lesson for the farmers to find out how to face the monkeys.
One of the universities in Kaohsiung was also disturbed by “Taiwanese macaques.” More and more students complained to school about their food always disappear in dorm rooms and sometimes. After investigating, the school found that the monkeys always went into the students’ dorm rooms to steal the food, for example, fruit, cakes, and cookies…etc. In the investigating video, the macaques were so smart to use their hands to open the window and find out where the food is.
The numbers of “Formosan rock macaques” are more than human in some villages. In order to avoid these wild conservations’ harass, some people live in the villages tried to make some sounds of firecrackers to scare them. The monkeys were very smart because after once or twice they heard the noise, they know that wouldn't hurt them anymore. Then, they still submerged the house and pillaged the food from human.
It is a big war between human and wildlife conservations. How to protect them and not to harm human’s life is very hard. Maybe this situation would become a question to us, and we can suggest the government to discuss how to maintain the connection and balance between human and natural.
