YAMANOUCHI, Nagano Prefecture—Visitors to the popular monkey park here have been delighted by the sight of wild Japanese macaques soaking in hot springs to escape the winter chill. Approximately ...

Japanese macaques at a natural zoo on an island in western Japan's Kagawa Prefecture have been observed hugging each other, ...

Mao Danqing, 62, a professor of Japanese culture at Kobe International ... “Osaru Koen” (monkey park). “I initially thought the cage should be preserved, but when I looked at the signboard ...

The Highland Wildlife Park says the Japanese macaque or snow monkey is the most northerly living non-human primate. 'They are the subject of many Buddhist stories and are represented in the Three ...

Ishizuka was investigating a group of Japanese macaques living at Choshikei Monkey Park on the island of Shodoshima, and saw monkeys hugging in May 2021. Over the next three months or so ...

Tourists watch the staff at Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, outside Kyoto, feed wild Japanese macaques. Such provisioning has helped boost monkey numbers. They’re so abundant now that more ...