Guinness World Records has officially recognised a 108-year-old Japanese woman as the world’s oldest professional barber. Shitsui Hakoishi, who turns 109 this year, says she plans to retire when she ...

Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are some of the most intelligent and expressive primates in the world. With their strikingly human-like faces, complex social structures, and remarkable ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

By using this self-scratching activity as a behavioral indicator of stress, a study on wild female Japanese macaques has provided a novel and counter-intuitive finding: females exhibit higher ...

By using this self-scratching behaviour as a behavioural indicator of stress, our study on wild female Japanese macaques provided a novel and counter-intuitive finding: females exhibit higher stress ...

A Japanese macaque was caught on tape mounting female sika deers, going all the way and trying to actually have sex with an animal they usually just ride like horses. Now a new study based out of ...

The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower around us, beckoning us to their slopes. In central Japan, just under two hours from Tokyo by bullet train, Nagano is known ...

The Goffin’s cockatoos, however, displayed a novel and experimentally confirmed food flavoring behavior, previously only documented in Japanese macaques. So, a team of researchers decided to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Macaques can form associations between words and pictures, demonstrating a human-like ability known as cross-modal association. Experiments showed that macaques ...

Tourists flock to see the macaques bathe in natural hot springs to survive the cold, but concerns about the animals' welfare are rising. Visitors sometimes violate park rules by touching or ...

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Macaques in a Japanese nature reserve have their first alpha female. The news is not only a win for females of all species but also a highly unusual phenomenon. For most people, when they think of the ...