Macaques help themselves to water at hiking trail rest stops

Macaques help themselves to water at hiking trail rest stops

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On Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Mountain, volunteers carry large buckets of water to rest areas for hikers to stop for a drink. But it’s not only people that get thirsty up in the mountains. Monkeys also drink from these water containers! One hiker shot a video of macaques crowding around the containers, jumping up and down, trying to figure out how to open its spout.

Four macaques crowd around water containers at a rest stop on Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Mountain, hoping for a refreshing drink.

Hiker
Monkeys can open the spout. I’ve seen it before. After opening it, they let the water drip and then lick it.

Lin Mei-yin
Macaque expert
Shoushan already has a lot of human-made facilities. When monkeys see these water containers that people carry to the rest stops, of course they’re going to try and open them.

Green notices are posted on the containers reminding hikers to tightly close the spout and cover it with a sleeve after use. This is meant to prevent macaques from sneaking a drink. But the clever monkeys still managed to crack this safeguard.

Lin Mei-yin
Macaque expert
In the past, hikers would put small padlocks on the containers to prevent macaques from opening them. But they might just want a drink or to play.

Volunteer
It’s due to human behavior most of the time. A lot of people will just close the spout haphazardly after using it.

The volunteer explained that the spouts have plastic covers to keep them sanitary so that hikers can have clean drinking water. There are three rest stops along Shoushan’s hiking trails, each equipped with water containers carried up the mountain by volunteers. Here, thirsty hikers can find a drink, but they may have to wait in line behind some playful monkeys.

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猴厲害! 柴山獼猴"習得新技能" 奉茶站自己開水桶

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高雄柴山的奉茶站，平時就有熱心山友，負責揹茶水桶上山，讓登山民眾口渴可以喝，但有民眾拍下，這次喝水的，居然是好幾隻小獼猴，牠們圍著大水桶，跳上跳下，疑似是口渴要喝水，影片PO上網引發熱議。不過也有志工認為，可能是有人沒有把水關好。

畫面中，好幾隻台灣獼猴，在高雄柴山的奉茶站，圍著大水桶，跳上跳下，影片PO上網，引發熱議。

[[登山民眾]]
“(獼猴)會開水龍頭，(以前)有看過，牠就是把它(水龍頭)扳開來之後，讓那個水滴然後牠去舔”

[[台灣獼猴共存推廣協會秘書長林美吟]]
“柴山它本身就是人為設施很多的地方，猴子看到這些人為搬上去的茶桶，奉茶站啦，牠本來就會去開”

綠色水桶上，都有特別貼公告提醒，為避免獼猴偷喝茶桶的茶水，請山友們在茶桶使用完畢後，關緊水龍頭，並套上套管，只是沒想到，這招防猴秘招，竟然被小獼猴們給破解。

[[台灣獼猴共存推廣協會秘書長林美吟]]
“之前其實很多山友，他們會在茶桶上面鎖小的鎖頭，會防止猴子去開，其實這個狀況猴子可能，只是因為想要喝水或是去玩”

[[志工]]
“都是人為比較多啦，因為很多人他也不是故意的，用完了之後關，他就隨便關了就走了”

志工也說明，茶水的出口，有塑膠隔離套保護飲用的衛生，山友不用擔心。柴山山上共有三個奉茶站，都是山友踩著階梯，一階一階無私奉獻揹上山的，讓民眾來登山，不用自備水，卻被小獼猴也當成補水站，而且不只發生一次，這真的是一場人猴鬥智大戰。

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