Japanese City Alarmed by Biting, Clawing Monkeys Attacking Children and the Elderly
One male monkey, measuring 49 centimeters in height and weighing 7 kilograms , was caught Tuesday by the team with the tranquilizer gun. It was judged by various evidence to be one of the attacking monkeys and put to death.No one has been seriously injured so far. But all have been advised to get hospital treatment. Ambulances were called in some cases.
Although Japan is industrialized and urban, a fair portion of land in the archipelago is mountains and forests. Rare attacks on people by a bear, boars or other wildlife have occurred, but generally not by monkeys. No one seems to know why the attacks have occurred, and where exactly the troop of monkeys came from remains unclear.It took days for officials to finally catch a monkey running freely through the city of Fukuoka, Japan.
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