Leave The Primates Alone If You Love Them
SPCA Selangor 
Jun 22, 2021 
NGOs, SPCA Selangor 
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Recent viral videos from Thailand show large groups of hungry macaques roaming the streets, searching for food after a sharp decline in tourism deprived them of their ordinary diet of human handouts. While most viewers feel compassion for the suffering of these hungry animals, their sheer number illustrates an important and frustrating biological fact; feeding wild animals increases their rates of reproduction, causing population explosions. So, every monkey that we feed creates more mouths to feed, leading to a vicious cycle of dependency on humans.
From DR SUSAN LAPPAN, DR NADINE RUPPERT, AINI HASANAH and MUHAMMAD ZAKI ZAINOL of Malaysian Primatological Society.
Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2020/04/09/leave-..
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