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In Taoyuan’s Guishan District, a woman was caring for her potted plant when she was suddenly assailed by a macaque monkey. With other recent victims including chickens and dogs, the city’s Department of Agriculture has already intervened in order to help local residents deal with the area’s increasing macaque population.

Her head down, engrossed in her work, this woman is suddenly attacked by a monkey. This macaque monkey claws at and bites her back, causing the woman to scream in pain.

Victim
Macaque attack
I was pointed to the side like this, and the monkey rushed at me from this way. Maybe it was because it saw me over there, so that’s why it attacked me.

Family member
Macaque attack
There’s a monkey that gets on the roof, running back and forth, back and forth. When there’s nothing to eat, it’ll jump down and head back. We had a Japanese breed of chicken get bitten to death; the bird’s feathers were all yanked out.

The incident took place in Taoyuan’s Maple Tree Village, which is located in Guishan District. Macaques are often seen in this area, sometimes even a group of them lines up on a roof. These monkeys have attacked chickens, harassed dogs, and this time one of them has even attacked a human, resulting in a wound that’s about 5cm long. The victim recently had surgery on her sciatic nerve, and the incision on that side ended up getting infected. The infected tissue had to be removed at a hospital.

Hsieh Ming
Taoyuan Department of Agriculture
Because of this incident last week in Guishan District’s Maple Tree Valley, where a macaque injured a resident, we’ve already taught the residents some wildlife interaction concepts, and we investigated the site of the incident. We’ll be doing a follow-up evaluation in which we’ll determine how to trap and relocate the animal; we’ll also seek to reduce the amount of food and kitchen waste local residents leave outside so that wild animals will be less likely to rely on human food.

In order to deal with the mountainous area’s growing population of macaques, and thereby prevent another attack, Taoyuan’s Department of Agriculture has already placed traps that contain a tasty treat: fruit.

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