12/10/2004: Japanese "snow monkeys"

Undertoad · 12-10-2004, 11:05 AM

Happy Friday! These two live in Yamanouchi, central Japan. About 300 snow monkeys live there in the Nagano mountains, and when the weather is cold they bathe in an outside hot springs pool. Apparently they live in the wild but have this layer of interaction with the human world - where the humans build things for them, watch them, feed them, protect them etc. but don't cage them in, in the parkland where they live. They're a huge tourist attraction.

National Geographic article on them

Photo gallery of them

12-10-2004, 11:05 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	12/10/2004: Japanese "snow monkeys" Happy Friday! These two live in Yamanouchi, central Japan. About 300 snow monkeys live there in the Nagano mountains, and when the weather is cold they bathe in an outside hot springs pool. Apparently they live in the wild but have this layer of interaction with the human world - where the humans build things for them, watch them, feed them, protect them etc. but don't cage them in, in the parkland where they live. They're a huge tourist attraction. National Geographic article on them Photo gallery of them

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