When humans face a group of splashing monkeys, they are often bullied to the point of "urine", let alone compared to animals with a huge disparity in size such as cats.
From the speed of action to the bouncing power of "flying eaves and walls", the monkey's skills are not inferior to cats, and once the cat is bullied, can it escape to **?
In January 2024, some netizens went to Kunming Zoo to visit, but they did not expect to witness the scene of monkeys "absolving" cats.
They rode on the cat with impunity, paying no attention to the cat's screams, just plucking the cat's whiskers and tail.
In this park, there are at least a dozen monkeys, and there are only two cats known as "catching mice", so being outnumbered inevitably leads to low status and abuse.
However, in the face of the anger and doubts of netizens, Kunming Zoo not only did not make a reasonable response, but even openly provoked netizens, which is too much!
As mentioned in the Kunming Zoo's response on January 19, monkeys and cats have been living in harmony with each other as early as 2013, when the park thought of a way to release cats to kill rats in order to solve the problem of rat infestation in Monkey Mountain.
Kunming Zoo said in the report: "The cats and monkeys have been living together for many years and have not harmed each other. ”
However, is this really the case?
According to a 2017 report by The Paper, staff at the Kunming Zoo said that they initially released two cats into the Monkey Mountain to kill rats, but they were killed by the monkeys soon after.
Subsequently, 7 cats were introduced at one time to achieve a balance between the two species. Based on this situation, we can draw the following conclusions:
The monkeys at the Kunming Zoo show hostility towards cats.
After putting the two cats in Monkey Mountain, it has become a fact that they were bullied.
Backed by this evidence, the Kunming Zoo is unashamedly claiming that "monkeys and cats have always lived in harmony?" The statement is puzzling.
Is the cat in Monkey Mountain currently having shiny back fur and in good condition?
At least judging from the ** that netizens took at the scene, this is not the case.
Cats are known to be very hygienic and often lick their paws to groom their hair.
However, the little white cat banished to Monkey Mountain has a messy back hair, a drooping beard, always squatting, and a tightly clamped tail, making it impossible to imagine how it spends every minute and every second on Monkey Mountain.
It's hard to imagine that as early as 2021, there were rumors that the cats would be moved out of Monkey Mountain.
In fact, getting cats into Monkey Mountain to catch rats isn't limited to Kunming Zoo, as it's an affordable way to get rid of rats. As early as 2021, a zoo in Henan exposed an incident in which a "rat extermination kitten" was chased by monkeys. At the beginning, Kunming Zoo said that it "plans to move all the cats on Monkey Mountain in the near future and hand them over to professional animal shelters or to be adopted by caring people".
However, in 2024, this promise has still not been fulfilled, which makes netizens extremely angry and bluntly said: "Let the director personally go in and catch mice." The three "lies" of Kunming Zoo directly affected the whole of Yunnan.
A netizen from Yunnan once expressed: "Kunming Zoo directly made me unable to raise my head. Some tourists even said: "I originally planned to travel to Yunnan, but now I don't want to go." The number of likes on these comments is quite impressive, showing widespread discontent. This incident has attracted the attention of many netizens, who put forward suggestions for improvement through the backstage of Kunming Zoo through private messages.
However, the dialogue showed an arrogant attitude, which made people feel more and more dissatisfied. A netizen called for an end to the abuse of cats, but the staff responded with "can't". In addition, the staff also advised netizens to "care more about themselves" or "whether they need to see a doctor" in a stubborn and ironic way. This attitude completely provoked a strong reaction from **, and even triggered a large number of complaints from the mayor**. There was also a girl who went to the Monkey Mountain of Kunming Zoo, intending to jump from the fence more than six meters high to save the cat, but fortunately, she was rescued by everyone.
However, afterwards, the girl said that she did not really plan to jump, but just wanted to draw more people's attention to the issue in her own way. As she wished, the event has become a hot search and has attracted the attention of more than eight million people. Zhang Xinyu also expressed her dissatisfaction with the Kunming Zoo on January 27, bluntly saying: "If we put the monkeys on the tiger's side, we will also be angry." "Kunming Zoo has always emphasized that the model of "monkey and cat coexistence" has been supported by citizens and experts, however, let's now hear what real science experts have to say about it.
The D** report published a news item on January 26 in which Guo Geng, a researcher at the Beijing Biodiversity Conservation Research Center, referred to the outrageous act of keeping monkeys and cats together and called for a ban on it.
There are three reasons he points out: first, keeping primates with carnivores can lead to danger and fights. Second, co-stocking wild animals with domesticated animals may break down interspecific segregations and increase the risk of susceptibility. Third, from a scientific point of view, monkeys and cats can be in an emotionally stressful state of hostility.
However, in the early hours of January 28, the Kunming Zoo issued a notice saying that the two monkey mountain cats had been safely removed, and stressed that the test results of professionals showed that they were in good health, with no external injuries on the body surface and normal mobility.
However, this statement did not subside, but made some sharp-eyed netizens find something unusual.
Some netizens posted that a few days before the cat was removed and on the day it was removed, they found that not only the coat color became white, but also the secretions around the eyes were significantly reduced.
Therefore, some netizens commented: "It is estimated that I took it to take a bath overnight, so that the cat does not look so miserable." This caused more anger over the "monkey and cat coexistence" incident at the Kunming Zoo.
This incident caused strong disgust among netizens, not only because the kitten was loved. If cats are placed in the same cage as birds and hamsters, so that tourists can witness their tragic deaths under the claws of kittens, then the effect may also reach the current "monkey and cat coexistence" caused by the high level of attention.
Some people believe that there is indeed a law of survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle in nature, but the "ecology" created by Kunming Zoo is artificially created.
The cat's plight was created by the leaders of the park, and the level of education was not enough for them to recognize such a "** behavior."
This is just like the real "man-beast fight" in history, if people are unfortunately defeated by the mouth of the beast, will you indifferently hang up and say "the weak eat the strong, the fittest survive"? Or will they be outraged by the aristocracy's disregard for human life?
I believe that most people would choose the latter, which is also the psychology of people who oppose "monkey and cat coexistence" today. If no one speaks out against the Kunming Zoo's actions now, it will be a terrible thing to think about.