A few days ago, there was such a news in Wanning, Yunnan Province, saying that a wild monkey entered the village and injured people, resulting in 9 people being injured, 6 of whom were minors.
What's more, the monkey also tried to rob a baby, but fortunately, the baby's parents found out in time. In the process of driving, the monkey also knocked the baby to the ground to delay time, and later the parents took the baby to seek medical attention in time, except for being scratched by the monkey, there was no other major problem. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Why is this monkey different from the species we usually see? Doesn't it say that the monkey is human, but how can it become a harmful species?
You can't imagine how ferocious and intelligent the monkeys are
Monkeys are not as well-behaved as we think, and they also have a hot-tempered and aggressive side. Moreover, there have been more than one such cases.
One of the most famous is the Emeishan monkey, and anyone who has been to Emeishan knows how bad the temper of the Emeishan monkey is. Not only do they snatch tourists' personal belongings, but they even bite them.
A tourist's mother also cried that when she was changing her child's pants on the mountain, a monkey took the opportunity to bite off her child's genitals.
Even in severe cases, there are fatalities that make tourists fall off cliffs, making tourists afraid of them.
"Mount Emei Monkey" is not only the name of a monkey species, but also a notorious nickname.
In 2022, there was also a news report that a little girl of about 3 years old was playing at the door, but she didn't know that there was a monkey behind her. I saw that the monkey took advantage of the little girl's inattention, pounced on her, and even dragged her several meters away. If it weren't for the help of well-wishers, it's hard to imagine what would have happened to the little girl.
Not only in China, but also in foreign countries, there have been many cases of monkeys hurting people.
It is said that the earliest case of monkey injury occurred in Tanzania, Africa, when a baby was drinking milk in the cradle of the family, and the adults were too busy with their own affairs to take care of the child. At this time, a monkey swaggered into the house and took the baby away.
In the end, the baby was severely injured in the head and neck because he was not rescued in time, and he died because he was not rescued in time.
In Japan in July 2022, there were a number of incidents of monkeys injuring people. It is said that within ten days, a macaque broke into the door in succession and attacked the elderly and children. In the end, about 17 elderly people and children were injured, and people were panicked for a while.
The monkey is very cunning, it knows how to open the window and sneak into the room without anyone noticing, and the police found that the screen of the victim was not damaged, proving that the monkey has a very high IQ.
Later, the local government took the matter very seriously, and many police patrolled here during that time. But it is not known if this cunning monkey sensed danger and never appeared again.
In order to appease the terrified local population, the government needs to pay more compensation in addition to continuing to step up inspections.
There are still many such cases, which shows that the cunning and ferocity of these monkeys are not as ordinary as we think.
Are these monkeys born with their cunning or are they forced out by humans?
Is monkey nature good or bad?
There are many and complex factors that make up monkeys.
First of all, monkeys are wild animals, and like other animals, they still retain their wild nature, so it is normal for them to be hostile to humans.
In addition, monkeys are also very territorial and need to protect their territory and their children. In recent years, as humans have expanded their territory, the area where they can move has become smaller and smaller, and even people who feel that their territory is occupied by others will struggle, let alone monkeys.
Like human mothers, monkeys have a special interest in their children. If their children are the slightest bit of a potential danger, they will be unkind to these alien species.
In addition to their own children, food is also a factor in their aggression against humans. Monkeys are opportunistic predators, and at the slightest chance to fight for food, even if the other party is human, the monkeys will become aggressive and try to compete for food.
Then, as humans have had more and more opportunities to get along with monkeys in recent years, monkeys have slowly adapted to the presence of humans, and they also know that humans will tease them at most, and will not really hurt them. Therefore, the monkeys are becoming more and more bold and dare to "clap" with humans.
Therefore, it can be said that the nature of monkeys is inherently wild, and coupled with human interference, it has invisibly contributed to their extremely arrogant character. As a result, part of their current personality is also caused by human hands.
The monkey's IQ is not ordinary
To say that monkeys are so naughty and disobedient now, it is not enough to rely on their wildness, but also on their intelligence.
As a primate, monkeys actually have a high IQ. Experts have detected that the IQ of monkeys is actually equivalent to that of a child about 3~4 years old, and the IQ of individual extremely intelligent monkeys can reach the level of a 10-year-old child.
There are a number of experts who can train monkeys to do some things that humans can do on a daily basis: for example, experts at Harvard in the United States trained rhesus macaques to do some simple addition operations, and a farmer in Australia trained monkeys to drive a tractor and understand some simple passwords.
History shows that modern apes and modern humans have a common ancestor, that is, ancient apes. Australopithecus and modern monkeys have a common ancestor, that is, primitive primates.
In addition, orangutans have chromosomes that are very similar to humans, and monkeys and orangutans are primates with 46 pairs of chromosomes, so these two are closely related, and monkeys are also very close to humans, which can be regarded as close relatives.
So, there are similarities between humans and monkeys to a certain extent.
The IQ of an animal is judged by the weight ratio of the animal's brain to the spinal cord, and the higher the ratio, the more intelligent the species.
In the course of this experiment, experts found that with a 50:1 ratio of humans, it is currently the most intelligent species on the planet. Among other animals, the ratio is 1:1 for cats and 8:1 for monkeys, with the South American marmoset being the animal with the largest brain-to-spinal cord ratio after humans at 18:1.
Therefore, sometimes monkeys are also an excellent raw material for experimentation, and they can replace humans to simulate the effects of various viruses, so as to develop suitable agents.
These cases show that monkeys are a species with a very high IQ, which is also reflected in their vindictiveness.
When it comes to how vengeful the monkey's revenge is, we have to mention the famous "monkey and dog war" in India.
In December 2021, a female monkey brought her cubs into the village to look for food, but was unfortunately discovered by a group of dogs in the village, who began to chase the mother monkey and the baby monkey, and the baby monkey was caught and bitten to death by the group of dogs due to the strength of his feet.
The female monkey witnessed the whole process of the little monkey being bitten to death by the dog, but because it was the only monkey at that time, it was weak and could not fight a group of strong dogs, so she could only endure the pain and escape.
Half a month later, the she-monkey came to a roof with a puppy in her arms and threw the puppy down without hesitation. This fall was like lighting the fuse of the "monkey and dog war", and things evolved more and more violently.
A group of monkeys, assembled by the Monkey King, begin to take revenge on the other puppies in the village. According to statistics, in a month's retaliation war, nearly 250 puppies were killed by the monkeys.
The dogs are not vegetarians either, and they have begun to hunt these arrogant monkeys. Although the locals in India worship the monkey god, they did not expect the monkeys to kill so many pups, so they began to help the dogs drive away the monkeys.
However, since they are not allowed to kill the monkeys directly, the monkeys behave even more arrogantly, not only stoning adults, but also sneaking up on the elderly, and attacking weak children while the children are in school, causing the crowd to be afraid.
The monkey's strong vindictive spirit is really visible.
The intelligence of monkeys makes a different social group
Because monkeys have the same intelligence and behavior as humans, they are like a small human society within themselves.
Monkeys are a "patrilineal society", their leader is a male, and the male dominates all the resources in the monkey group, and there is no substitute in terms of status.
The leader of the monkey will be in charge of things such as the priority of food and the source of reproductive rights, and some important resources and goods will also be allocated and managed by certain high-ranking monkey leaders.
They behave like humans in their daily lives, such as helping other older monkeys catch lice, taking care of their own children, building families, and fighting for power.
And the inside of each monkey group will constantly adjust over time, and the young and strong monkeys will constantly provoke the old elders, and force the old monkey king to abdicate through a fierce struggle. After that, the original social structure once again underwent a "great change".
This method is not much different from today's human society that pursues "the strong eat the weak".
Therefore, the monkey is also a highly intelligent wild animal with its own ideas. Their ferocity is understandable, and if we humans want to live in peace with these monkeys, we must understand the principle of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
All creatures in nature are spiritual, and if humans were treated the same as monkeys, we would do things that would be beneficial to us. Therefore, the best thing to do is to ignore them and leave them a clean space.