Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) will bathe in natural hot springs during the cold winter months to stay warm.
Look how happy they look!
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📢 FYI:
The bath habit started in the 1960s
Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano opened in 1964. Around that time young macaques began hopping into a nearby inn’s outdoor hot spring, others copied them, and the monkeys eventually got a pool of their own.
Hot bath for little monkey🐒
Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) bathe in hot thermal springs during icy winters, where temperatures can reach as low as -15°C.
#FrozenPlanet2 airs every Saturday at 21:00 Mecca on BBC Earth channel no. 205
'Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in Hotspring' by Olivia Sickels Photography
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'Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in Hotspring' by Olivia Sickels Photography
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Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) will bathe in natural hot springs during the cold winter months to stay warm.
Look how happy they look!
#animals#facts#japan
📢 FYI :
The northernmost monkeys on Earth
Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), better known as snow monkeys, are found only in Japan. No other non-human primate lives farther north.
Hot bath for little monkey🐒
Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) bathe in hot thermal springs during icy winters, where temperatures can reach as low as -15°C.
#FrozenPlanet2 airs every Saturday at 21:00 Mecca on BBC Earth channel no. 205