"The Times of India" reported on September 28 that there is a spread of macaque called Bonnet in Karnataka, southern India. The local villagers are miserable, so a lot of manpower is concentrated on macaques. It was sent to the forest 22 kilometers away. Unexpectedly, one of the macaques had a strong vengeance and returned to the village to avenge the villagers captured at that time!
The macaque ran 22 kilometers back to the village to take revenge on the villagers. What's your memory?
A village in Karnataka is infested with macaques. The villagers’ crops are often destroyed by macaques. Of course, they are not just destroying crops. They also rush into residential areas to search for food and sometimes attack children. Annoyed the local villagers.
Therefore, the villagers can only turn to the local forestry department. On September 16, the forestry department officials organized the villagers to carry out a round-up. The process was not so smooth. The driver Jagadish who participated in the round-up was caught When the monkey attacked, the macaque bit him and forced him to hide in the car.
But in the end they were arrested successfully, and these annoying monkeys were sent to the forest 22 kilometers away. But a week later, on September 23, the villagers suddenly found a macaque came back, and they only stared at the driver Jagadish who was bitten in revenge!
This macaque is crazy, turning a blind eye to the others who participated in the round up, but retaliating against Jagdish alone. No matter how much he pays, he can’t prevent a monkey staring at him all the time. The wound was not healed again. If he was bitten again, he would have to rest for ten and a half days. Jagdish relied on his work as a driver to support his family. This monkey was about to crash Jagdish.
After the local forestry department learned of the incident, they organized another round up.Send this kind of extremely vengeful macaque to a farther place, but Jagdish is really scared, still in fear, I don't know when it will come back!
How is the memory of the macaque so good?
Rhesus monkeys are monkeys of the primate family. Their IQ is relatively high. According to some data, the IQ of rhesus monkeys is equivalent to that of children aged 4 to 5 years. Although this description is not necessarily scientific, it can be expressed from one side. Rhesus monkeys are indeed very smart.
On April 20, 2020, experts in brain science research from East China Normal University published a titled Behavioral evidence for memory replay of video episodes in the macaque in the sub-published "eLife" of "Nature" The paper describes the process of memory playback in the macaque brain, indicating that there is a scientific basis for the use of past memories by macaques.
So the macaque may have been in conflict with Jagdish in the captured crowd, leaving a deep "image" for it, which led to its memory that only Jagdish was vindicated. In fact, the situation is similar to that of human beings in gang fights. It is impossible for so many people to remember. Therefore, it is also the reason to believe that one person fights fiercely.
Indian man-monkey conflict, an inevitable event of population expansion
September 7, 2021, a report issued by India’s Environmental Science and Conservation stated that it was in Karnataka on July 29 Several sacks were found in the dense forest about 40 kilometers in the village of Hasan District, and 38 corpses of capuchin were found inside.
Local TV stations and newspapers reported the tragic scene on the front page. The Karnataka High Court called these reports "very disturbing", which put strong pressure on the local forest management department and police. Seven people were charged with one crime of killing wild animals.
The reason for killing capuchins is simple,These capuchin monkeys caused a large amount of crop loss to local farmers. The local forest protection official called and often received reports from villagers that their crops were destroyed by monkeys! Multiple studies have shown that Capuchin monkey is one of the top five crop destruction species in India, second only to wild boar and elephant. The annual loss is more than 20 billion rupees . Therefore, in areas where capuchin monkeys are flooded, people are tacitly allowed to shoot monkeys that are destroying crops.
Of course, there are huge loopholes in this regulation. Therefore, people have killed a large number of monkeys that are "destroying crops" according to this regulation. Since 2020, a large number of capuchin monkeys have been killed in the area along the Western Ghats . There were also three killings in the coastal areas of Karnataka (6, 14 and 50 monkeys in the three incidents), and 60 monkeys were killed in a cage in southern Karnataka. starve.
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 by the Department of Animal Protection of India on PLOS, since 1989, the number of monkeys in southern India The capuchin monkey population has decreased by approximately 65%.
The main reason is the construction of roads and the urbanization expansion after the explosive growth of India’s population, the decline in tree canopy connectivity and the large amount of land being reclaimed for arable land, etc. Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History ( HN Kumara, SACON's chief scientist and one of the authors of the 2017 paper, said that the tolerance of the Indian population to these animals is rapidly declining.
The development of this trend is that the people have worshiped monkeys before, but now most people think that monkeys are "pests" and have lost their status in the religious world, becoming an economic problem As a victim of the current social conditions, the human-monkey conflict in India is inevitable.
Don’t forget, there are more serious human-elephant conflicts in India.Fighting with elephants, the world moves! I’m talking about another serious human-animal conflict in India. Compared with monkeys, elephants, elephants seem to have nothing to do with the world, but the dispute between elephants and Indians is fierce. I believe you all. I would cry after seeing it.
On November 7, 2017, the BBC reported that a photo of an Indian burned elephant won the first prize in the wildlife photography competition, but the journal " Sanctuary strong" The award is a shame. In West Bengal where this photo was taken, scenes of conflicts between people and elephants can be seen everywhere.
In early June 2020, to prevent elephants from destroying pineapples, the Indians stuffed a pineapple with a "torpedo". As a result, a pregnant female elephant was violently swallowed In the explosion, the mother elephant's mouth was blown apart and suffered severe damage, and finally hid in a piece of water in horror and died alone.
"India Today" reported on January 22, 2021. On January 18, in Tamil Nadu, Indians threw a burning tire on an elephant, and it burned. The tyre stuck behind the elephant’s ears, and the frightened elephant ran away frantically, but still couldn’t get rid of the burnt and still sticking tyre.
On January 19, the elephant was sent to the Elephant Conservation Base for treatment and died of his injuries. The methods used to deal with elephants in India range from explosives to traps, from power grids to fences. ,From poisons to bows and arrows, there are all kinds of things, only you have never seen, and you can't imagine! From the beginning of the BBC report in 2017 to the conflict between Indians and elephants in 2021, nothing has changed.
The elephant who was electrocuted
How serious is the Indian elephant conflict?
A set of numbers can be seen, from 2016 to 2018, a total of 314 elephants died in India, of which 206 died of electric shock, 60 died of train accidents, 21 died of poisoning, and 27 died of Poaching, while 1,474 people died in the human-elephant conflict across India during the same period.
Compared with monkeys destroying crops, elephants can be described as bulldozers. Once they break into the crops, basically nothing can survive in this land. After walking around, the crops are destroyed. , The ground is also compacted.
Yunnan makes way for elephants
Asian elephants are protected animals in India in China, and they are also protected animals in India, but they are different from shopping in Yunnan, China from April to May 2021. Elephants are almost an animal that everyone shouts and beats in India. In the final analysis, it is also caused by the extreme expansion of India's population and the deepening of the transportation construction in the elephant territory, which has caused the elephant territory to be compressed.
What’s more terrible is that India’s population is currently almost always expanding, and it is still in the early stages of development. Although the Animal Protection Organization of India has repeatedly called for the protection of elephants and has taken practical actions, it is basically just a drop in the bucket. It is impossible to carry out comprehensive elephant protection like China.
The elephant killed by a train
If you want to blame, you can only blame these animals for being born in the wrong place!
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