This monkey's career as a crop raider was finished. The farmers delivered her live to a wire and concrete cage at a dump outside the town of Ambo. There she joined 17 monkeys trapped at other sites during the previous three weeks. They stared with blank eyes at human visitors and huddled in the dark shadows at the backs of the cages, wretched creatures living in squalor. When winds from the sea whipped garbage from the dump around the edges of the cages, the monkeys grabbed for it and tried to eat it.
Nobody knows what happens to any individual monkey after capture.
Probably they enter the animal trade or go to zoos or become part of medical research. Most, Manda says, probably die in transit. Records show that these hunters killed 161 of the primates on Yakushima in 1990. Sprague says that between 1983 and 1989 at least 2,200 monkeys were captured or killed on the island. This figure may represent as much as a third of the island's macaque population.