But research into Taiwan's wildlife suffered a long hiatus after the end of the Japanese occupation. In the last few years the Council of Agriculture has been looking for people to survey and research wild animals to provide the basis for natural resource management, and Sun's professor in the US also hoped Sun could find his own funding and research topic.
但台灣野生動物研究由日據時代後，空白了好一陣子，近幾年農委會正需要人來調查、研究野生動物，做為自然資源管理的依據；美國教授也希望他能自己找經費與研究對象。