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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Japanese monkeys, living in Jigoku-dani in the Nagano Prefecture, are known for enjoying the warm pools in the area in winter time. Sony Action Cam captured these ...

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 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 ...