Any visitor to the Lower Peirce Reservoir would have seen the sign - 'Stop feeding the monkeys'. When my children aged nine and 11 read the sign, they questioned why people were still feeding the monkeys.

So, if an educated man such as Mr Joseph Ng (an engineer) alleged that he did not know it is an offence to feed the monkeys since the words are in fine print, then he must have understood the sign in its plain English.

As an adult, he should educate the young ones and not simply justify his own actions by saying it was only natural to feed the monkeys and help entertain 'the kids'.

How would Mr Ng react if the monkeys were to attack him and the family members who were with him? Will he sue the National Parks Board for the monkeys' acts of aggression or will he learn his lesson, albeit the painful way?

If educated people fail to grasp the rationale of not feeding the monkeys, how does NParks attempt to educate park visitors?

We are all creatures of habits. If park visitors continue to feed the monkeys and, hence, turning them to be more aggressive, we become killers when the monkeys are culled because of our ignorance.

Agnes Tan Suan Ping (Mdm)