In Japan, a monkey-hunting squad mistakenly shoots a woman with a tranquilizer dart, knocking her out for an hour.
A group of incompetent monkey hunters in Japan tranquilize a woman by accident.
She was informing them of the location of the monkey when she was shot in the arm.
Yesterday afternoon, the tragedy occurred in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
It is the latest in a string of macaque attacks across Japan.
Yesterday afternoon, a group of incompetent monkey hunters in Japan unintentionally shot a woman who had reported a monkey to them with a tranquilizer dart.
According to Sora News 24, the event occurred in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, after multiple witnesses reported spotting the monkey near Fujikawa Station.
Three municipal employees and one monkey-hunting expert armed with tranquilizer rifles were sent to the location to dispatch the monkey.
One of the team members accidently shot the woman in the arm with a tranquilizer dart when she provided information regarding the location of the rogue monkey upon their arrival.
Officials from the city claimed that one of the hunter’s fingers slipped while taping the barrel of their weapon to prevent air leakage and accidentally squeezed the trigger while the barrel was directed at the kind woman.
Yesterday, a monkey was discovered in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, prompting the sending of a team to capture it.
The team ended up shooting a local woman who was pointing them to the monkey’s location with enough tranquiliser to kill a 15-kilometer monkey in the arm.
Officials of the city claimed that one hunter’s finger slipped and squeezed the trigger while taping the barrels of their rifles to prevent air leakage, while the barrel was directed at the kind woman.
Multiple witnesses reported spotting the monkey near Fujikawa Station, according to Sora News 24.
An amount of sedative sufficient to knock out a 33-pound (15-kilogram) monkey poured into her veins and put her to sleep almost instantly.
The hapless monkey-hunting crew hurried the woman to the hospital, where she regained consciousness one hour later. However, it took another hour before she was awake enough to communicate.
She did not sustain any injuries and was released later the same day. The monkey is currently at large.
The incident sparked questions about the skill of their monkey hunters, and the government of Fuji City issued an apology to the woman.
They pledged a comprehensive inquiry into the occurrence and a policy review to prevent future inadvertent emissions.
In recent weeks, Japan has been rocked by an ongoing series of monkey attacks, leaving city inhabitants terrified.
More than sixty people, including children and the elderly, have reportedly been attacked and injured by macaques in the city of Yamaguchi during the scorching summer. Some of the victims were asleep in their beds when they were attacked.
The first known Japanese macaque attack occurred on July 8, when the ape went into an apartment in the Ogori district of Yamaguchi city and attempted to drag a newborn out the window, inflicting multiple wounds.
The baby’s mother reported that she was alerted by her child’s screaming and shooed the monkey away before requesting that authorities capture the animal “as quickly as possible.”
In the Japanese city of Yamaguchi, 60 people have been hurt by marauding Japanese macaques (shown, file photo), prompting local authorities to use tranquilliser rifles to bring them under control.
Officials said the surge of monkey assaults in the western Japanese city of Yamaguchi (shown) is unusual, with adults and children suffering scratches and bites.
It had seized her by the legs as she played on the floor. It appeared to be trying to drag her outside,’ she told local media.
According to reports, the monkey went on to attack five more individuals in the same district before entering a primary school on July 11 and scratching one student before attacking a four-year-old girl at a neighboring nursery three days later.
In another instance, a father told the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, ‘I heard crying coming from the ground floor, so I hurriedly descended. Then I noticed a monkey crouched over my child.
A team of “specially commissioned hunters” tracked down and euthanized one particularly nasty monkey, believed to have been a member of a “monkey gang” responsible for more than 50 attacks.
“It’s unusual to see so many attacks in such a short amount of time,” said a city official who declined to provide their name. Initially, only women and children were targeted. Recently, the elderly and adult men have also been targeted.
The official continued, “Eyewitnesses describe monkeys of all sizes, and even after the capture, we’ve received complaints of further attacks.”
In some regions of the country, Japanese macaques are a nuisance, consuming crops and even entering homes. They are a regular sight in broad portions of the country.
Nonetheless, the number of attacks in Yamaguchi is rare, with some locals telling local media that they now carry umbrellas and tree-trimming shears for protection.
Initially, only women and children were targeted. Recently, the elderly and adult men have also been targeted, the source stated.
In Japan, the conflict between humans and Japanese macaques, the most northern species of non-human primates, has increased over the past several decades.
After the end of the war, the government prohibited the killing of Japanese macaques, resulting in a steady increase in their population.
This was aided by the loss of their two primary predators, the mountain hawk-eagle and the Japanese wolf, both of which are now extinct.
According to a study published in April 2021 in the journal Mammal Study, shifting demographics in Japan may potentially be contributing to an increase in macaque-human conflict.
The paper hypothesizes that over the past 50 years, humans have migrated away from traditional rural villages, abandoning them to increasing monkey populations.