In recent days, the news of “Emei Mountain monkey census, 85% have diabetes” circulated on the network, causing a lot of concern.The same news also said that due to tourists feeding a large number of sweets and drinks, so that Emei Mountain monkeys eat excessive sugar every day, in a recent census, 85% of them have diabetes.
The reporter learned from the Emei Mountain scenic area Management Committee and Emei Mountain Forestry management that the rumor is untrue.The reporter noted that the news of Emei monkeys suffering from diabetes can be traced back to September 2023, when a self-media account released a video, saying: the recent census of monkeys in Emei Mountain, 85% of the monkeys have diabetes, “because people’s sugar industry is doing too well, the Coke to the monkeys.”
Recently, the video went viral again. Many netizens were surprised after watching, and some netizens questioned the authenticity of the video, leaving a message asking: “Who checked it?”On December 5, the reporter learned from the Emei Mountain Scenic area Management Committee that the scenic area had not conducted a large-scale census of monkeys in the near future.
“Around 2020, when the ecological monkey zone was being built, there was an epidemic source test, and then there was dynamic monitoring, no so-called census.” The relevant person in charge of the management committee told reporters that the monkeys had diabetes, they did not know.
Emei Mountain forestry management staff clearly told reporters that “85% of monkeys get diabetes” is impossible.
According to the management, the monkey group of Mount Emei is a wild macaque, distributed in the mountains at an altitude of 670-2640 meters, and the contact with tourists is limited to some monkey groups in the ecological monkey area and other places. These groups, under the management of monkey keepers, live in their own areas and feed on leaves, buds, fruits, branches and bamboo shoots of a variety of plants, as well as animal food such as insects, frogs and bird eggs.
“There are occasional visitors who feed them, but they are always discouraged by the staff, so there is no possibility of overfeeding.” The staff of the management institute told reporters that the management maintained the monitoring of the monkey group, and there were no reports of disease in the wild monkeys recently.
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