NHK's popular nature program "Darwin Comes!" (NHK General) will air "Close-up in Thailand! Latest Report on Skillful Monkeys" on May 31st at 7:30 p.m. The program closely follows the "skillful monkeys" of the crab-eating macaque in the streets of Thailand.
The crab-eating macaque is a bold and curious creature. The program has previously featured its use of human hair for brushing teeth and stones for cracking nuts, but this time it follows monkeys living in the streets of Thailand. There, it discovers a series of new skills, including swimming, which is unusual for monkeys, a surprising "smacking technique" for obtaining food, and a "begging" technique that reads people's feelings...
Meanwhile, it has also become clear that a troublesome problem is currently occurring between humans and monkeys. We take a closer look at the lives of crab-eating macaques.
