Wang Ying, a professor of biology at Taiwan Normal University, carried out a study of wild game shops from 1985-1988. In ten shops he found the galls, bones, meat and skins of some 90 bears. Of the more than 90 hunters interviewed by the university, more than half admitted to having hunted bear.
以台灣本身為例，師大生物系教授王穎在一九八五至八八年進行山產店調查，曾在十家店裡發現總共九十幾隻熊待處理的膽、骨頭、肉和皮，在師大採訪的九十幾個獵人中，超過一半表示他們獵捕過黑熊。