Japanese macaque

The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a monkey that lives in the high mountains of the island of Honshū in Japan. They live in below-zero temperatures, and they like to warm themselves and relax in hot springs.

Japanese macaque
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Genus:	Macaca
Binomial name
Macaca fuscata
Subspecies
Macaca fuscata fuscata Macaca fuscata yakui
File:Japanese Macaque area.svg
Japanese macaque range

Diet

Macaques eat fruit, flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, shrimp, and insects.

Weight and physical appearance

Macaques weigh around 12 kilograms and can grow up to 70cm. They have short tails.

Japanese Macaque Media

• Skull of a Japanese macaque

• Japanese macaques grooming

• Japanese macaques at Jigokudani Hotspring in Nagano have become notable for their winter visits to the spa

• Jigokudani

• Mother macaque with infant

• Macaca fuscata juvenile yawning.jpg

  Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) juvenile yawning at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Nagano, Japan.

• Japanese Macaque, Onsen Day at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Nagano Prefecture.

• Kazuenokami Kato Kiyomasa Observing a Monkey with a Writing Brush LACMA M.84.31.456.jpg

  The famous Japanese warrior Kato Kiyomasa was depicted with his macaque who holds a writing brush, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1883)

• Macaca fuscata, feeding time, iwatayama, 20081122.jpg

  Macaques gathering for yakiimo (sweet potato) being handed out by an attendant at the Iwatayama Monkey Park

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