Sex between a snow monkey and sika deer in Japan could reveal new information about bestiality in humans. Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy There's a snow monkey in Japan who has got a taste for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate City has prepared a hot spring exclusively for 40 Japanese macaques ... Hokkaido originally had no wild monkeys, with the animals' natural habitat ...

About 30 Japanese monkeys were huddled closely together to keep one another warm, reminding me of pre-pandemic, jam-packed commuter trains. It also reminded me of "oshikura manju," a traditional ...

This is Jigokudani Monkey Park, home to a population of Japanese macaques. Colloquially called snow monkeys, the species has adapted to the cold with fur that grows denser as the temperature drops.

Visitors to the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in the southwestern Japanese Prefecture of Oita, which is home to more than 800 monkeys, are casting votes for their favorite primates.