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
The cave is so dark that these nocturnal snakes that live in bat caves are essentially completely blind and deaf
