Baboons "run away from home" from Leofoo Village? There is no shortage in the inspection and "one more" - Life

There are baboons wandering around in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City, and the outside world has guessed where they "run away from home" from? The Recreation Section of the Hsinchu Forest District Management Office of the Forestry Bureau and the Forestry and Nature Conservation Division of the Agriculture Division of the Hsinchu County Government jointly inspected the Leofoo Village Theme Amusement Park this afternoon. The Recreation Division of the Forestry Management Office said that preliminary inspection found no shortage of "Arabian baboons", and one more "East African baboons" than the number reported last year. Judging from the hardware "anti-escape" mechanism of the park, there is no escape situation. Lin Chunru, deputy manager of the animal management department of Leofoo Village, explained that the animals in the open-air exhibitions of Leofoo Village are "prevented from escaping" by electric gates, physical fences with power grids, drones, monitors, and ground security vehicles in each area. The opening of the electric gate is controlled by the remote control of the management personnel, and it cannot be opened by induction. There are also electric grids on the front and back of the gate to restrict animals from staying away from the electric gate.

There was no shortage of East African baboons in Leofoo Village this afternoon.

(Photographed by reporter Huang Meizhu, picture provided by Leofoo Village; synthesized by this newspaper)

[Reporter Huang Meizhu/Hsinchu Report] There are baboons roaming around in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City. The outside world has guessed where they "run away from home"?

The Recreation Section of the Hsinchu Forest District Management Office of the Forestry Bureau and the Forestry and Nature Conservation Division of the Agriculture Division of the Hsinchu County Government jointly inspected the Leofoo Village Theme Amusement Park this afternoon.

The Recreation Division of the Forestry Management Office said that preliminary inspection found no shortage of "Arabian baboons", and one more "East African baboons" than the number reported last year.

Judging from the hardware "anti-escape" mechanism of the park, there is no escape situation.

Lin Chunru, deputy manager of the animal management department of Leofoo Village, explained that the animals in the open-air exhibitions of Leofoo Village are "prevented from escaping" by electric gates, physical fences with power grids, drones, monitors, and ground security vehicles in each area.

The opening of the electric gate is controlled by the remote control of the management personnel, and it cannot be opened by induction. There are also electric grids on the front and back of the gate to restrict animals from staying away from the electric gate.

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There is also a buffer zone between the exhibition areas, which is also a protection mechanism to prevent any animal from the original exhibition area from directly entering the performance field of another animal. Arrived at the buffer zone within a few days, emergency response treatment.

In addition, the wall height of the East African baboons is 4 meters high, and the grid is about 4.6 meters high. Although they have excellent climbing ability, the grid is powered 24 hours a day, and it is checked every day to see if it is working. Due to their gregarious nature and the habit of being kept in captivity, they will not escape at will.

According to Leofoo Village, there are 15 categories of primates in the park, and there are currently 327 primates.

Among them, there are 2 species of baboons, East African baboons and Arabian baboons.

Last year, the numbers reported to the relevant government units were 155 and 8 respectively. This afternoon, there were actually 156 East African baboons and 8 Arabian baboons.

The Hsinchu Forest Management Office and the County Government Agriculture Office said that today they mainly entered the farm to find out whether there is any risk of escape in the breeding environment of the park, or if there is indeed a loophole, and the related "escape prevention" mechanism, and initially grasped that there is no escape situation.

As for the actual number, it will fluctuate with factors such as birth, old age, sickness and death of animals. Although the garden has actively done the necessary neutering, so that the actual number of breeding will be different from the number reported every year, but basically the counting results this afternoon are consistent. Too big a gap.

However, the Forest Insurance Division of the County Government's Agricultural Department said that they will further ask Liufu Village to use a more scientific and reasonable method as soon as possible to find out the correct amount.

The Forestry Bureau of the Council of Agriculture pointed out that the baboons found in Pingtung University of Science and Technology, identified by Su Xiuhui, an associate professor at the Institute of Wildlife Conservation, were not "East African baboons" but "pig-tailed baboons."

There was no shortage of East African baboons in Leofoo Village this afternoon.