Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to watch the macaques, especially in winter. To help keep the monkeys in the area, the park staff feeds them several times a day and has done so for 40 years. When the feeding started, the troop numbered 23 individuals; now it has about 200.

　　地狱谷野生猴园每年吸引几十万游客前来观赏日本猕猴，尤其在冬季。为了将猴子留在园区内，园区的工作人员40年来每天都会喂食猴子几次。园区刚开始喂食猴子时，猴群内共有23只猴子，现在已有大约200只。

　　Here and elsewhere in Japan, artificial feeding of the monkeys with "human" foods and their burgeoning numbers in populated areas have begun to cause problems. In ancient Japanese folktales, monkeys often appear as tricksters, cleverly duping other animals out of their rice ball or persimmon fruit. The macaques at Jigokudani and other spots in Japan are living up to their bad rap, raiding orchards and gardens, taking apples, prize grapes, and other crops. The situation is especially bad where expanding numbers of monkeys are moving closer to villages and growing bolder in their exploits, occasionally attacking humans and stealing food from inside houses.

　　不论在这里或是日本其它地方，用人类的食物喂食猴子，以及它们在有人类居住地区的数量增长，都已经开始造成问题了。在古老的日本民间故事里，猴子往往扮演爱恶作剧的妖精，狡狯地骗走其它动物的饭团或柿子。地狱谷和其它地方的日本猕猴也还真是不负它们的坏名声，侵袭果园和花园，偷走苹果、葡萄和其它作物。越靠近村庄的地方问题越严重，在数目膨胀的猴群中，猴子们的行为越来越胆大妄为，偶尔还会攻击人类，甚至从住屋内偷取食物。