Has that been OK for your country, or do they create a problem as many imports do? I wonder where they came from, as Britain certainly is not home to any monkeys! And why?
I quote below an extract on the reason of importing monkeys:
After the completion of the Kowloon Reservoir in 1910—the first reservoir constructed on the Kowloon Peninsula—the British discovered a poisonous plant known as strychnos that grew in the reservoir’s vicinity. It was believed that the plant’s fruit contained alkaloids that were lethal when ingested by humans, but did little harm to monkeys.
Fearing that the fruits would fall into the reservoir and contaminate the drinking water for the New Territories, the authorities introduced a number of rhesus macaques to the area in hopes that they would gobble up the fruit.
These monkeys flourishes but the indigenous monkeys went extinct.
Thanks for the information. It’s always interesting to learn the consequences of importations of plants and animals.
There is a lot of interaction between every process which tries to change the course of nature 🙂
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Interesting! What kind of monkeys are they?
Short tailed, imported last century by the Brits.
Has that been OK for your country, or do they create a problem as many imports do? I wonder where they came from, as Britain certainly is not home to any monkeys! And why?
I quote below an extract on the reason of importing monkeys:
After the completion of the Kowloon Reservoir in 1910—the first reservoir constructed on the Kowloon Peninsula—the British discovered a poisonous plant known as strychnos that grew in the reservoir’s vicinity. It was believed that the plant’s fruit contained alkaloids that were lethal when ingested by humans, but did little harm to monkeys.
Fearing that the fruits would fall into the reservoir and contaminate the drinking water for the New Territories, the authorities introduced a number of rhesus macaques to the area in hopes that they would gobble up the fruit.
These monkeys flourishes but the indigenous monkeys went extinct.
Thanks for the information. It’s always interesting to learn the consequences of importations of plants and animals.
There is a lot of interaction between every process which tries to change the course of nature 🙂