Formosan rock macaque steals a bag of bananas from Kaohsiung store
Formosan rock macaque steals a bag of bananas from Kaohsiung store
2023-05-24
Photos have emerged from a Kaohsiung grocery store, showing a monkey climbing the shelves. Astonished shoppers hurried to record the simian visitor’s antics. But the store owners are used to it - they say they’ve seen this particular visitor multiple times before. Formosan rock macaques are a common sight in the rural communities of Kaohsiung. FTV spoke to local market sellers, and to an expert on the monkeys, to find out more.
When a customer spotted the scene they immediately snapped these photos. A macaque sits up on the top shelf of the store with a bag of bananas.
The monkey found its way into the grocery store in search of food. Onlookers were amused, but the store owners are more blasé.
Voice of Ms. Hung
Member of public
The store owner said the monkey has been in there three times. My mom said the monkey grabbed a bag of bananas and jumped on the shelf. She went and told the store attendant – if she hadn’t, nobody would have noticed.
Fruit sellers at nearby Neiwei內惟 Market say that monkey thieves are a common sight.
Fruit seller
I see them all the time. They’re very cheeky, they eat a bit and then chuckle at you. They always steal good fruit, they don’t pick it off the ground – they don’t eat fruit as bad as that.
Fruit seller
They’re all on the roof. When one wants to eat, it jumps down from the roof. We cover it with cloth in the morning, obviously, but they open it up and choose the things they want.
These fruit sellers have resigned themselves to visits from their furry friends. But this macaque expert says that it’s wrong to imagine they’re coming into town to look for a free lunch.
Lin Mei-yin
Taiwanese Macaque Coexistence Association
There isn’t really a great shortage of food for macaques. These are mostly male macaques, and when male macaques reach maturity, they want to disperse outward, migrate, to look for new communities to join, so that they can interchange their genes.
But whatever the monkeys are after, the public is reminded never to chase them away, nor to deliberately feed them. Approaching them is a quick route to getting injured.
柴山獼猴也愛逛超市? 店員:已看到三次了
2023-05-24
有民眾發現，猴子現身大賣場，還爬到貨架上東張西望，原來手上抓著一袋生鮮香蕉，打算開動，這逗趣畫面被民眾拍下來，店員透露，猴子已經進去賣場三次了，而附近攤商也見怪不怪，說自己的水果也常常被搶。
有民眾在賣場看到這一幕，馬上拍下，居然有隻猴子，就坐在賣場貨架上，前面還有一袋生鮮香蕉。
原來是一隻猴子，闖進了生鮮超市搶劫，讓看到的民眾覺得好逗趣，沒想到店員見怪不怪。
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"店員是說已經進去有三次了，然後我媽媽是說，猴子拿著香蕉就跳上架上，她還是去跟店員說，如果她沒去跟店員說，也沒人發現"
附近內惟市場的水果攤商，其實也常常被獼猴搶食。
[[水果攤商]]
"很常見呀，牠還很調皮，吃一吃還會跟你笑嘻嘻，都用搶的，不是撿地上的，牠們沒有吃這麼壞"
[[水果攤商]]
"牠們都在屋頂，牠就想吃，就會從屋頂跳下來，我們早上都會用布蓋嘛，但是牠還是會自己打開，自己選著吃"
雖然水果被搶，但也習慣了，但獼猴協會認為，猴子下山來應該並非為了食物。
[[台灣獼猴共存推廣協會秘書長 林美吟]]
"對獼猴來說，牠們食物並沒有太大的缺乏，牠其實算是雄猴，那雄猴成年之後，本來就要向外移動，向外播遷，去尋找新的社群加入，讓牠們的基因可以互相交流"
不管這隻調皮的猴子用意為何，民眾看到時也千萬不要動手驅趕，或是餵食，才不會因此而受傷。
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