transcript. The Story Behind Japan’s Bathing Monkeys For the famed snow monkeys, a troop of Japanese macaques that live near Nagano, soaking in hot springs eases the stress of cold winters.

Snow monkeys of Japan 21 photos. ... Throw in a little barley to sweeten the deal and voila!-- you get bathing monkeys. American Philbert Ono grew up in Hawaii and now lives in Japan.

TRAVEL SNOW MONKEYS -- Japanese Macaque monkeys dip in a hot spring in the snow at Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture, central Japan, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.

Japan's 'snow monkeys' have a longer, thicker coat than most primates and use the bath to keep warm. This is a morphological adaptation, a change to the appearance of the animals to aid in survival.

An infant Japanese macaque monkey bathes in the hot springs at Jigokudani-Onsen in Jigokudani, Nagano-Prefecture, Japan. A young female was the first macaque spotted in a hot spring, in the 1960s.

Baby snow monkey checks out tourist as they photograph the animals bathing in Japanese hot springs Animals were bathing in hot springs at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Yamanouchi Photographer, Jimmy Ky ...

Japanese snow monkeys have been observed since the 1960s to take advantage of hot springs in Japan when the temperatures drop. In humans, we know that a hot bath can reduce the levels of stress ...

Japan's Female Snow Monkeys Need 'Spa Days' for Self-Care Just Like Humans, ... began with a singular female monkey. She was viewed bathing in an outdoor hot spring belonging to a nearby hotel, ...

More visitors than ever have flocked to see the snow monkeys bathing in Japan's natural hot springs at Jigokudani Monkey Park. But the increase in visitor numbers has raised concerns over the ...

The snow monkeys of Japan are famous, as monkeys go. This troop of Japanese macaques lives in the north, near Nagano, the mountainous, snowy site of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Monkeys are on the rampage in a southwestern Japanese city, attacking at least 58 people in just three weeks. People in Yamaguchi city have been terrorised by the violent primates, with reports ...