Wild behaviour on Hong Kong’s Monkey Mountain

It’s time to clamp down on the uncivilised behaviour of animals on the trails around Kowloon’s Monkey Mountain.

A recent visit to the macaques in Kam Shan Country Park illustrated just how obnoxious they can be. Not the monkeys, the Homo sapiens.

Despite numerous signs warning people not to feed the macaques, countless vehicles had been halted on the road along Kowloon Reservoir and food was being dropped out of open windows for the passengers’ entertainment.

This was nothing compared with the conduct at the minibus stop. First, a taxi pulled up and out got two young women and two wailing kids. One woman had a plastic bag full of bananas, which she threw, one by one, onto the road, tempting monkeys down from the trees. When some of the animals came too close, she threw the bag and the remaining bananas at them.