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 ...
Macaques can be found all across Japan. We followed a troop on a small island in the country's northeast and discovered some amazing greeting rituals and dietary habits. Also on display were the ...
A member of a gang of monkeys that has terrorised residents of a Japanese city for weeks has been caught and killed, officials say. The macaques have injured almost 50 people in Yamaguchi.
Japanese scientists succeeded in giving birth to a macaque baby from the mother’s transplanted uterus, the first such achievement in the world. A team of researchers including those from Keio ...
Japanese macaques help each other to achieve a common goal, according to an Osaka University study, highlighting the importance of tolerance of others in society. The research team, which includes ...
The present work was determined by the need to join two groups of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in one big group. The first group (1.3) had been kept together for about eight years since their ...
A Japanese macaque has escaped from a wildlife park and is on the loose in the Cairngorms. Attempts are being made to recapture it, but what advice have people living near the zoo been given?
Macaques are living the life. Photographer Atsuyuki Ohshima captured a rare photo of one monkey's cowboy behavior. The photo, taken on Japan's Yakushima Island, is titled "Forest Rodeo." ...