The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden here has been drawing increasing ...

Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are some of the most intelligent and expressive primates in the world. With their strikingly human-like faces, complex social structures, and remarkable ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

Your recent editorial, “Primate research faces extinction,” makes two points: that the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata, may be an endangered species, and that its use for research purposes by ...

Considered messengers of the gods, the macaques are now made to wear costumes, do backflips, and walk on stilts to please crowds. Trainers with the Sen-zu No Sarumawashi performance group in ...

A Japanese macaque was caught on tape mounting female sika deers, going all the way and trying to actually have sex with an animal they usually just ride like horses. Now a new study based out of ...

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 ...

The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese macaque) on April 21, the first to be born this year. The newborn male macaque was named “Dekopin ...

By using this self-scratching activity as a behavioral indicator of stress, a study on wild female Japanese macaques has provided a novel and counter-intuitive finding: females exhibit higher ...

Our study investigated stress levels in wild female Japanese macaques through self-scratching behavior, as an indicator of stress level. We observed 11 adult females in a wild group on Kinkazan ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Macaques can form associations between words and pictures, demonstrating a human-like ability known as cross-modal association. Experiments showed that macaques ...