Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy There's a snow monkey in Japan who has got a taste for something a little different. A Japanese macaque was caught on tape mounting female sika deers, going all the way ...

Young monkeys orphaned by such measures sometimes end up in entertainment. In nature, Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are hardy creatures. No other nonhuman primate lives at such ...

Although the macaque is not presumed dangerous to ... We were watching in awe as it's so displaced to see a Japanese snow monkey in your garden in a village in the middle of nowhere.

Your recent editorial, “Primate research faces extinction,” makes two points: that the Japanese ... macaques for research purposes. Because it takes about seven years for newborn monkeys ...

OITA--A baby monkey named in honor of Shohei Ohtani ... Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese macaque) on April 21, the first to be born this year.

The population of snow monkeys, also known as Japanese macaques, living on the island has a respect for tolerance, a rare quality among animals of the species that is native to Japan, according to ...

Japanese macaques (snow monkeys) like to bathe in the hot springs here. The park has been nicknamed Jigokudani Monkey Park. The Zao Onsen hot spring and ski resort in the mountains of the Yamagata ...

Tourists flock to see the macaques bathe in natural hot springs ... Visitors sometimes violate park rules by touching or feeding the monkeys. While tourism has boosted park finances, it has ...