Human-wildlife "conflict"

Japanese macaques, who are famous for demonstrating their intelligence with innovative and culturally trasmitted foraging techniques (sweet potato and grain washing) and "hot tubbing" during the cold and snowy winters are now being framed as hooligans.

Macaques' monkey business causing concern

When everyday human actions interfere with or otherwise affect animal lives, we don't use the word conflict and we rarely think of animal costs. Yet, when animal actions (say coming into populated areas) disrupt human lives - even briefly and infrequently - then there is "conflict." The solutions nearly always come at the cost of the animals. They are moved, killed, threatened, captured etc., because people can't be "troubled" with making even small changes - sometimes not even looking at the human role in creating the "conflict" in the first place. How very anthropocentric, myopic and lazy.