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Tiff and Ying (BT)

Observations of macaques:

-       unafraid of humans

-       sit near road (waiting for food)

-       cracking a nut with teeth

-       male and female macaques humping each other (male advanced towards female first)

-       playing

-       climbing railings and walls

-       bared teeth at something (angry)

-       male advanced towards mother and child, mother is protective of child and moves away from male (watch video)

-       feeding young (suckling milk)

-       macaques make high pitched squealing/whining noises

-       unafraid of humans (when humans take pictures or stand very close, the monkeys do not react)
-   jump onto cars (watch video) and walk on main road (which cars drive through)

Nicole and Natalie (WELL)

Observations of macaques:
 - Monkeys walked over to taps outside toilets to drink water
 - Many monkeys seen outside the Wallace Learning Lab (Many climbed up to the roof to the trees to feed)
 - When some of the monkeys spot humans, they turn around and walk back towards the direction they came from, afraid to come any closer to the humans.
 -  Some monkeys made high pitched noises when humans approached.
 - No monkeys displayed signs of aggresion or made any attempt to come close to us.
 - Most just calmly stared back at humans
 - Monkey calls heard in the Wallace Trail. One monkey seen.
- 5:20PM - No monkeys could be observed.

 Q&A:
One family: Encounters monkeys in WELLs outside the learning lab often. But the monkeys stay far away and remain calm. Unless humans themselves approach the monkeys

One woman: She has never seen monkeys in the Wallace Trail before, but her friend has. She has seen monkeys outside the lab.

One man: Barely sees any monkeys in the wallace trail, only outside near the lab. He thinks that the monkeys are afraid of humans and are afraid to approach. He knows that feeding the monkeys would result in them losing their fear of humans, in turn becoming aggresive towards humans. He even gave an example. Saying that he knows of a case where a macaque went to a coffeeshop at bukit timah to look for food and was very aggresive.