"When the Central Cross-island Highway was first built, the monkeys would hide when they saw vehicles coming. But now when a car approaches they come rushing out." Wu Hai-yin says that because visitors feed the monkeys, they go crazy when people arrive. They have lost their former fear of man, and this causes people to mistakenly believe that there are monkeys everywhere.
「在新中橫沿線，過去猴群見到車子是躲起來，如今見到車子就衝出來，」吳海音說，遊客隨意餵食，個性「人來瘋」的猴群，對人不再心存畏懼，也會讓人誤以為處處有獼猴。