Of course, one could say that if we want to understand animals we should pay a price, but the funds which Taiwan makes available for ecological research are limited, and researchers often have to scrape together the budgets to hire research assistants as best they can. Much of the research done by academic institutions relies on the support of biology undergraduates.
當然，人們可以說，想瞭解動物就應該付出代價，但台灣撥給生態研究的經費有限，有時連研究助理的預算都左支右絀，學校的研究，往往是靠生物系學生支援。