met me at the bus stop. 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people in Japan suffer from spinal ... spinal cord injuries that impaired hand movements in Japanese macaques, the researchers began administering the compound ...