T2W10

Bukit Timah

5.12pm:
- Around 22 macaques
- Around 25 ppl
- Big bin still gone
- Whole site rather clean and free of rubbish



Macaque behaviour:

• Disregard of humans and cars
• Walking on roads
• Sit in the middle of roads and groom each other
• Eating leaves
• Eating leftovers (from aluminum foil, paper wrappings, etc.)
• Picking up styrofoam cup left behind by construction worker
• Drinking from styrofoam cup
• Drinking from drink cans
• Sitting and walking on cars

Human behaviour:

• 1 man keep agitating macaques - stomping his feet, shooing macaques
• People ignoring/disregarding macaques presence
• Small kids went very near macaques (<1m) to macaque family to look at/observe them
• Parents allow children to go near macaques
• People in cars give way to macaques on the road
• Left their dustbins open (no locks, open)
• 1 woman go veryvery near (<1/2m) to take pictures of macaques

WELL (Ying)

4pm - Arrived at WELL. Overcast sky. 8 people observed. No macaques were found along the lab and the entrance.

4.30pm- 13 people observed. Still no macaques observed although monkey calls were heard near the end of the Wallace Trail.

4.45pm- Started to drizzle. 0 macaques were found.