DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Park Zoo is introducing patrons to the newest member of the zoo family: Taro, a baby Japanese ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A baby Japanese macaque has been introduced to the Blank Park Zoo. Taro, a baby Japanese macaque, ...

The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, is native to northern Japan. Francis Apesteguy / Getty Images. July 27, 2022, 9:36 AM EDT. By Arata Yamamoto and Dylan Butts.

Officials announced another new addition to the Blank Park Zoo on Monday — a baby Japanese macaque. The baby, a boy named Taro, was born at the zoo on June 17 to his ...

Macaque monkeys live together in an intricate social structure that often leads to internal battles for power and control.

Japan's hot spring macaques in Jigokudani Park draw record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, ... Visitors sometimes violate park rules by touching or feeding the monkeys.

Also known as snow monkeys, Japanese macaques live on the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Their natural territory is "further north than any other primate, apart from man," the zoo wrote.

A Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, recently spotted near the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan has prompted a public warning to keep a safe distance from the roaming primate. The animal, missing ...

As Japan’s macaque population grows, clashes with humans are becoming more frequent. More than 50 people were injured by recent monkey attacks in one western city.

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...