There've been at least 58 attacks on people since July 8. It's so bad that the city of Yamaguchi has created a special unit to hunt and tranquilize the animals.
could be responsible for the spate of violence. However, it’s since become clear that that’s not the case. One male monkey, known to have attacked someone, was captured by the tranquilizer team on Tuesday and euthanized. Yet more attacks have been reported since that one monkey was killed.took place inside, after at least one monkey entered peoples’ homes and a school through open windows and doors.
“In Japan, more and more monkeys are coming into homes and farms, damaging crops,” said Mieko Kiyono, a wildlife management researcher at Kobe University, to CNN. “Local governments have measures to chase the monkeys away — for example, they may use fireworks to chase them back into their habitat.” But that sort of response may be stoking hostility among the macaque community, Kiyono told CNN. Like all primates, these monkeys are social and learn from one another. “Monkeys who learn to react against humans will join other herds, leading to more monkeys that do not fear humans,” Kiyono said. Maybe, in Yamaguchi, the macaques have finally reached their limit.
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