This phenomenon could not be detected through traditional dietary research methods, but by using DNA-based techniques, such interactions were revealed for the first time, leading to important questions about how human activities affect wildlife.

The local authorities in Japan subsequently conducted a DNA survey of all the monkeys in the zoo and confirmed that 57 of the 167 monkeys were hybrids of macaques crossed with a specific exotic creature, the rhesus macaque, accounting for about one-third of the monkey population

It happens to be the season when mosquitoes and flies go wild, but it is true that there are not as many flies as there are mosquitoes today. This has a lot to do with our improved sanitation today, after all, flies need to lay their eggs on manure pits and rotting food, while many rural toilets have now been converted to squatting, and the shorter disposal cycle for waste has greatly reduced their hatching.