Japan's hot spring macaques in Jigokudani Park draw record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, 60% of them international ...

More visitors than ever have flocked to see the snow monkeys bathing in Japan's natural hot springs at Jigokudani Monkey Park ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...

Video. Japan's hot spring macaques in Jigokudani Park draw record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, 60% of them ...

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...

Published in the journal Scientific Reports in November, the study pitted a trio of Japanese monkeys - Pero, Ume and Shiba - against a battery of tests designed to measure their reaction time.

to the surprise of a Japanese researcher. The monkeys were observed embracing by Shintaro Ishizuka, a lecturer of animal ecology at Fukuyama University. A study of the animals' group life began in ...

Japanese macaques that live in the mountains can be watched up close at Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in the city of Oita. Three heaters are placed there in winter so the monkeys can stay ...

Scientists at Kyoto University studied 20 chimps at a Japanese sanctuary and analysed their toileting habits 1,328 times on more than 600 hours of video. “We found that chimpanzees, our closest ...

Many tales are told of World War II, but not widely known is the story of a sergeant from Ann Arbor and his decorated monkey ...