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Japanese monkeys are diurnal animal. At night, they sleep on the tree, with the posture of holding each other or sitting alone. They never made nests to sleep, and sleeping sites change everyday. From dawn to dust, troop moves slowly and during that, they search food, rest, or play. Mating season is from October to December. Their babies are born from April to June. Conception period is at average 173days and bear only one baby, whose interval is usually a year. They live for 25-30 years. |
Summary
of Japanese monkeys Japanese monkeys (a scientific name : Macaque Fuscata)
are known as the primate species that live in the northern part of the
world. They live in the forests, mainly broad-leaved forests in Honshu
excluding Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands.
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Each
monkeys has different face. It's very difficult to distinguish monkey's
face, like we can't memorize foreigner's face. But, if you keep up to
observe them, it's become easier and easier to distinguish their face.
They are good at living on trees. They developed the vision system to measure the distance between branches when they leap and jump onto. In addition, they live in a society, which need to identify each other by eyes. In various situations, they depend on their eyes. So, it's easy for us to identify each monkeys, and also easy for them to memorize our faces who often visit the monkey park. They can detect you even if you change the clothes. The method to memorize monkey's faces and identify each monkey is called individual identification. It's known that Japanese primates study is the top level of the world because of they uses individual identification method and conducted a detailed observation in many provisioned troops of Japanese monkeys, in that monkeys do not fear the humans. The first step to study about monkeys is to know the faces of monkeys. |
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| Snow monkeys are a medium sized animal. They have a light brown fur with white bellies and very red faces and bottoms. They use their hands and feet the way humans do, except when they walk. When they walk they are on all fours. They use their hands very precisely and are able to pick out specific types of food. They also use their hands for grooming each other, which they do a lot of. They pick bugs and other harmful things out of each other's fur. Mostly the older ones groom the younger ones. They scratch each other too. They climb around a lot on the boulders, logs, and trees in their habitat. They have a very short tail (about 2 inches long) that is useless for grasping. | |||||||||
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