The Times of India reported on September 28 that there is a macaque called Bonnet in the southern Indian state of Karnataka , and the local villagers are miserable, so they concentrated a large number of manpower to send the macaques to the forest 22 kilometers away, but one of the macaques had a strong sense of revenge and returned to the village to retaliate against the villagers who were captured at that time!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > macaques run 22 kilometers back to the village to retaliate against the villagers. </h1>
In a village in Karnataka, macaques are infested with macaques, and the villagers' crops are often destroyed by macaques, not only by any means, but also by rummaging through boxes and cabinets in residential areas to find food, and sometimes attacking children, making local villagers angry.
On September 16, forestry officials organized a round-up of villagers, which did not go so smoothly, and jagadish, the driver involved in the roundup, was attacked by monkeys, who bit him and forced him into the car.
However, in the end, they were successfully arrested, and the annoying monkeys were sent to the forest 22 kilometers away. But a week later, on September 23, the villagers suddenly found that a macaque had returned, and they only targeted the driver Jagadish who had been bitten in retaliation!
This macaque monkey is simply crazy, turning a blind eye to others involved in the round-up, but only taking revenge on Jagdish alone, he can't stop a monkey from staring at him all the time, the wound of the last time is not good, if he is bitten again, then he will have to rest for ten and a half days, Jagdish will rely on the driver's work to feed the whole family, this monkey is about to make Jagdish collapse.
After the local forestry department learned of this, it organized a round-up again and sent this vengeful macaque to a farther place, and Jagdish was really scared, still worried, and did not know when it would return!
Why is macaque memory so good?
Macaques are monkeys under the primates, their IQ is relatively high, there are data that the IQ of macaques is equivalent to 4 to 5 years old children, although this description is not necessarily scientific, but from one side can show that macaques are indeed very intelligent.
On April 20, 2020, experts in brain science research of Huadong Division published a paper entitled Behavioral evidence for memory replay of video episodes in the macaque in the sub-journal "eLife", describing the memory playback process in the brains of macaques, indicating that there is a scientific basis for macaques' calls to past memories.
So the macaque monkey may have left a deep "image" for it when it clashed with jagdish in the captured crowd, which led to its memory only identifying jagdish as retaliating, in fact, it is similar to the situation of humans in group fights, so many people cannot remember, so it is also true to believe that one person beats fiercely.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > indian monkey conflict, what must happen under population expansion</h1>
On September 7, 2021, India's Environmental Science and Conservation released a report saying that on July 29, multiple sacks were found in a dense forest about 40 kilometers from the village of Hassan District in Karnataka, from which the bodies of 38 monk-hat monkeys were found.
Local television and newspapers covered the tragic scene on front pages, which the Karnataka High Court called "very disturbing", which put strong pressure on local forest management and police, and eventually 7 people were charged with a killing of wildlife.
The reason for the killing of the monk-hat monkeys is simple, these monk-hat monkeys have caused a lot of crop loss to local farmers, and local forest protection officials say that villagers often receive reports of crops being destroyed by monkeys! Multiple studies have shown that the monk-hat monkey is one of the top five crop-destroying species in India, after wild boars and elephants. The annual damage is more than Rs 2,000 crore, so in areas where monks are infested with monkeys, people are tacitly allowed to shoot monkeys that are destroying their crops.
Of course, there are huge loopholes in this regulation, so the public kills a large number of monkeys "destroying crops" according to this regulation, and since 2020, a large number of monks and hat monkeys have been killed in the areas along the Western Ghats, and there have been three killings in the coastal areas of Karnataka (6, 14 and 50 monkeys in the three incidents), and 60 monkeys have been starved to death in a cage in southern Karnataka.
Of course, this is only the number of monkeys in public reports, and the number of monkeys buried directly after being killed is even more numerous, according to a paper published in PLOS by the Indian Animal Protection Department, the number of monk-hat monkeys in southern India has decreased by about 65% since 1989.
The main reasons are road construction and the expansion of urbanization after India's explosive population growth, declining canopy connectivity and the reclamation of a large amount of land for arable land, etc., HN Kumara, chief scientist of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) and one of the authors of the 2017 paper, said that india's tolerance for these animals is rapidly declining.
The development of this trend is from the previous people have a worship of monkeys, but now most people believe that monkeys are "pests", and lost their status in the religious world, becoming a victim of economic problems, the current social conditions, India's monkey conflict is inevitable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > don't forget, there is a more serious human-elephant conflict in India</h1>
Fight with the sky and have endless fun, fight with elephants, and the heavens and the earth are moving! It is another serious conflict between people and animals in India, compared with the monkey, which is a chicken and a dog, the elephant seems to have no quarrel with the world, but the fierce struggle between the elephant and the Indian people, I believe that everyone will burst into tears after watching it.
On 7 November 2017, the BBC reported that a photograph of an Indian burning elephant had won first prize in a wildlife photography competition, but sanctuary magazine called the award a disgrace, and in West Bengal, where the photo was taken, scenes of clashes between such people and elephants can be seen everywhere.
In early June 2020, in order to prevent elephants from destroying pineapples, indians stuffed a pineapple with a "torpedo", resulting in a violent explosion of a pregnant female elephant while swallowing, and the female elephant's mouth was severely damaged by the explosion, and finally hid in a water of water in terror and died alone.
India Today reported on January 22, 2021, that on January 18, in Tamil Nadu, indians threw a burning tire on an elephant, resulting in the burned tire sticking behind the elephant's ear, and the terrified elephant frantically fled, but still could not shake off the burned tire that was still stained on the body.
On January 19, the elephant died of his wounds while being sent to an elephant conservation base for treatment, and the means of dealing with elephants in India range from explosives to traps, from power grids to fences, from poison to bows and arrows, in a variety of ways, only you have not seen it, and you can't imagine it! Nothing has changed since the BBC report in 2017 until 2021 when Indians clash with elephants.
Elephant electrocuted
How serious is the indian elephant conflict?
From 2016 to 2018, a total of 314 elephants died in India, of which 206 died of electric shock, 60 from train accidents, 21 from poisoning, and 27 from poaching, compared with 1474 deaths in human-elephant clashes across India during the same period.
Elephants are bulldozers compared to monkeys destroying crops, and once they break into the crop field, basically nothing survives in the field.
Yunnan makes way for elephants
Asian elephants are protected animals in India in China, and they are also protected animals in India, but unlike the shopping and eating in Yunnan, China in April-May 2021, elephants are almost everyone shouting and beating animals in India, and in the final analysis, India's population is extremely expanded, and traffic construction is deep into the elephant territory, which makes the elephant territory compressed.
What's more, India is currently almost all population expansion, still in the initial stage of development, although the Indian Animal Protection Organization has repeatedly called for the protection of elephants, and there are actual actions, but it is basically a drop in the bucket, to learn from China to carry out comprehensive elephant protection is impossible.
An elephant killed by a train
If you want to blame, you can only blame these animals for being born in the wrong place!