Sun Yuan-hsun, who did his doctoral dissertation on owls, says that, if there is strict monitoring, there is no reason not to allow hunting, as the aborigines want. Of course, it is also understandable if some scholars harbor fond feelings for the creatures they study, and therefore oppose hunting.
以黃魚鴞完成博士論文的孫元勳表示，站在原住民傳統來看，若加入嚴密監控，不是不能打獵，但動物學者針對研究的動物投入情感，反對狩獵，也無可厚非。