People, therefore, need to know what they ... Found on almost every island in Japan, the Japanese macaque has one of the more sizable primate populations on this list. A medium sized monkey ...

Six Japanese macaques standing erect on leashes obediently ... “snow monkeys” lounge in hot springs. Years ago, after people began feeding the monkeys to draw them away from their farms ...

He was studying acute stress in Japanese macaques at the Koshima Field Center. “One thing people don’t give macaques credit for is they’re the most successful primates after humans,” he ...

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 ...

A compound that enhances neural transmission in the brain has been found to promote recovery from paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries in ...

A tourist at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan, was so desperate to get a close-up of this young Japanese macaque in a natural hot spring that she held her phone ever nearer to her subject. Suddenly, the ...

Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical ...

Your recent editorial, “Primate research faces extinction,” makes two points: that the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata, may be an endangered species, and that its use for research purposes by ...

The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese ... newborn male macaque was named “Dekopin,” after Ohtani’s dog. To help people become familiar ...