A Japanese zoo has killed 57 snow monkeys by lethal injection, after they were found to be carrying genes of an "invasive alien species." One third of the monkeys at the Takagoyama Nature Zoo were ...

Victory! Japan’s team bowed. And the crowd exploded in laughter. At Joshin’etsukogen National Park, in a volcanic region on the island of Honshu, “snow monkeys” lounge in hot springs.

Thanks to their ability to acclimatize themselves to colder environments, this particular breed of macaque is also known as the Japanese snow monkey. Found on almost every island in Japan ...

In 1970 a picture of a snow monkey bathing in a hot spring graced the cover of Life Magazine Ever since Japans hottubbing primates have been protected and well fed for the enjoyment of tourists ...

Interestingly, recent research led by the University of Vienna in Austria has shown that, unlike humans, Japanese macaques ...

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

The food was placed by an employee in the shape of katakana characters for “saru,” the Japanese for “monkey,” thereby forming fluffy “monkey letters.” The population of snow monkeys ...

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 ...

Interestingly, recent research led by the University of Vienna in Austria has shown that, unlike humans, Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), commonly known as snow monkeys, experience no maternal ...