monkeys have made small towns like Minamisoma their own.One local, Shuichi Kanno, spoke to NPR about moving back to the area he grew up in: ”The monkeys never used to come here, but after the disaster, the border between monkeys and humans has blurred,” he said."The houses were empty, but the gardens were still growing,” Shuichi said. “Plums, pears, chestnuts, persimmons.
It was a wonderland for monkeys, an all-you-can-eat buffet. And they remembered that."Shuichi has been at war with the troops of macaques that has taken possession of his neighbourhood.
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