Hong Kong's Backyard: Monkey Paradise

Hong Kong is a dense city with a lot of skyscrapers and high rise buildings, and at the same time, it inhabits a lot of wild animals. Monkeys in Hong Kong are mainly scattered around the Kowloon Peninsular. The total population of wild monkeys in Hong Kong is about 2,000, they were distributed in 30 social troops.

These pictures were taken from the Shing Mum Country Park. This country park provides monkey good habitats to reside as it has a lot of trees and a reservoir. Monkey feed mainly on plant materials like leaves, fruits, flowers, shoots and barks, but occasionally feed on insects. Due to heavy human feeding, the number of wild monkeys has increased dramatically in the past few years, and the monkeys not afraid of human, and will attack and steal food from us. They are very sneaky!

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Hong Kong's Backyard: Shing Mum Reservoir