According to CNN, The Guardian and other foreign media reports, recently, the police in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, are making every effort to arrest a "monkey injury offender" who is "wanted", and since the beginning of July this year, this wild monkey has repeatedly broken into the homes of local residents and attacked more than 20 local people, including a baby girl under 1 year old.
Although the wild monkey has not yet been caught, according to the pictures taken, it is most likely a "snow macaque", about half a meter tall, how it appeared here, and why it attacked people, the reason is not yet possible.
Local residents said he had seen the wild monkey as early as May this year, but it had not yet "entered the house and hurt people" at that time. According to the analysis of local scholars, it is believed that it is most likely because of the shortage of food in this wild monkey that it will appear in the human living area. Or maybe it has been hurt by people and is taking revenge on the local population.
It is worth mentioning that the "monkey injury case" does not only appear in Japan, take July this year, Tanzania in Africa, India in Asia and other countries, there have been incidents of monkey injuries, and these monkeys like to attack infants and the elderly, in Tanzania and India, there are baby boys who were snatched away by wild monkeys and fell to their deaths from a height.
This also makes many people feel worried, thinking that the frequent attacks of wild monkeys on humans are not a good sign, worried that this will be a precursor to the "rise of the orangutan ball", so is this really the case?
The global wild monkeys are starting to prey on humans, why are they doing this?
On the mainland, there have also been such incidents of wild monkeys injuring people. For example, in April this year, a little girl in Chongqing, mainland China, was playing in front of her own home, suddenly attacked by a wild monkey from behind, the little girl was immediately thrown down, and then dragged by this wild monkey, trying to drag her away, fortunately, the surrounding neighbors heard the sound, only to save the little girl's life.
And in June this year, an old man in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, sitting in front of his house to cool off, suddenly out of nowhere jumped out of nowhere, a wild monkey jumped out of nowhere, and frantically attacked the old man. Subsequently, local villagers also said that in recent times, a group of monkeys that will hurt people have suddenly appeared in the local area, and they will always attack the villagers inexplicably, and many people have been bitten and scratched by them.
And these monkeys are very smart, seem to understand that the elderly and children are vulnerable groups, will specifically attack them, this targeted, very purposeful attack behavior, but also make the villagers very afraid.
So why did the wild monkeys, who used to "not violate the river water" with people, suddenly begin to enter the human living area on a large scale and attack people? Is there really someone manipulating them?
The analysis believes that this may be because humans have affected their survival, which will make them prey on humans. As primates, monkeys have an IQ equivalent to that of human children aged 3-4 years, but although they do not look very intelligent, monkeys have a strong ability to imitate and will have many conflicts with humans in the process of contact with humans.
For example, in the past, monkeys lived in the mountains and forests, but the expansion of the human living range made the monkeys' habitat area shrink continuously, so that the monkey living area and the human living area coincided with a certain degree.
In the eyes of the monkeys, they will feel that humans have taken their territory, and when there is a shortage of food, they will rob humans of food.
And because monkeys have independent consciousness, which also allows them to distinguish the "weak" in human beings in long-term contact with humans, so when they attack humans and retaliate, they will not attack strong adults, but will pick the elderly and children.
So, wild monkeys frequently injure people, how to avoid this situation?
First of all, from the perspective of protecting the environment, humans should also learn to protect the habitat of wild monkeys, so that they have enough wild habitat space, so that they will not be close to the human living area, after all, in fact, doing so, for them, is also a very risky behavior.
Secondly, when encountering monkeys in the wild, do not feed them, this is because when wild monkeys are accustomed to human feeding, then they will think that humans should give them food, and once feeding is reduced, they will have hatred for humans and begin to "retaliate" against humans.
In many scenic spots on the mainland, the reason why the wild monkeys living inside will hurt people and rob tourists of their belongings is because they have become accustomed to human feeding and think that everything that humans should belong to them.
Therefore, the best way is to meet monkeys in the wild, do not go near them, and do not make provocative movements to them, so that you can reduce the situation of being hurt by wild monkeys, after all, as long as humans live in peace with them, these wild monkeys can get enough habitat space and food in nature, and they will not take the initiative to hurt people, what do you think?