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.

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in ...

More visitors than ever have flocked to see the snow monkeys bathing in Japan's natural hot springs at Jigokudani Monkey Park.

SUMOTO, Hyogo -- Wild monkeys in this western Japan city gathered on Dec. 25 to form the kanji character for "snake," the Chinese zodiac sign for 2025. The event took place at the Awaji Island ...

The resident Japanese macaque monkeys and sika deer have developed a close, mutually beneficial inter-species bond. The macaques ride around the island on the deers’ backs like miniature jockeys, ...

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The study was led by Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research Center in Japan. The concept of socially contagious urination is not new, as humans have long influenced ...

Exports of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia will remain legal pending further review, despite recommendations for a ...

Even more dramatically, the 2011 tsunami in Japan sent waves of debris rafting ... primate ancestors and the diverse array of New World monkeys thriving today, including capuchins, howler monkeys ...