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Japanese City Is Under Attack By Violent Monkeys, 58 Individuals Were The Victims
More than 50 individuals have been attacked by a group of roaming macaque monkeys in and around the southern Japanese city of Yamaguchi in the past three weeks. No serious injuries have been reported, but the victims were all advised to get hospital treatment, per Yuri Kageyama from the Associated Press., More on how is this Japanese City Is Under Attack By Violent Monkeys.
The main target for monkeys were children and women, Though officials say that attacks on the elderly and men are becoming more frequent.
Masato Saito The City Official tells the AP : “They are so smart, and they tend to sneak up and attack from behind, often grabbing at your legs,” He also stated “I have never seen anything like this my entire life.”
The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species that is native to Japan. Colloquially, they are referred to as “snow monkeys” because some live in areas where snow covers the ground for months each year, no other non-human primate lives further north, nor in a colder climate. Individuals have brownish grey fur, pinkish-red faces, and short tails. Two subspecies are known. They typically live in troops of about 20 to 30, but the groups can sometimes have more than 100 individuals. These monkeys were once considered endangered in Japan, but their population has rebounded, and they are now listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The animals can live about 22 to 27 years. Male Japanese macaques weigh about 25 pounds while females are about 18.5 pounds.
Human-monkey conflicts are becoming increasingly common as the macaque population grows and their natural habitat is destroyed, Mieko Kiyono, an expert in wildlife management and professor at Kobe University, tells CNN’s Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka
“Japanese macaque monkeys have coexisted alongside humans since the Edo period—Japan is very mountainous and communities live close to mountains where monkeys live, so it is easy for monkeys to enter villages and towns,” she tells CNN.
Some of these monkeys have reportedly broken into buildings where the doors were unlocked and windows, it got to the point where and elderly man was attacked in his sleep, According to the article that was published On NBC NEWS by Arata Yamamoto and Dylan Butts. Residents have been advised to keep doors and windows shut at all time.
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The Japanese macaque is the northernmost-living non-human primate. It is found on three of the four main Japanese islands: Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. The northernmost populations live on the Shimokita Peninsula, the northernmost point of Honshu. Several of Japan’s smaller islands are inhabited by macaques as well.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan in 1590 and ended the Sengoku period, was nicknamed Kosaru (“small monkey”) or Saru (“monkey”), “not only because his face looked like a monkey’s, but also because he eagerly sought identification with the monkey“.
In Search of Snow Monkeys: Tokyo to Jigokudani Monkey Park. Japanese snow monkeys have been patronizing the hot spring baths of the Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park for decades (since 1964, officially), and the image of these primates submerged in steaming water has become one of Japan’s most iconic.
The monkey is most likely only asserting itself and is not looking for actual combat.
Contain your fear as best as possible.
Don’t scream.
Don’t try to fight the monkey or push it off.
Walk calmly away. The monkey will eventually let go and leave you alone.
Can I bathe with the monkeys? No. The hot spring in the park is only for the monkeys. If you want to try and take a bath with the monkeys, you might try your luck at the nearby Korakukan Onsen – the guesthouse where the monkeys first observed and copied the behavior of soaking in the hot spring.
The monkeys of the Jigokudani Monkey Park are famous for one big reason – they are the only troop of monkeys in the world known to bathe in hot springs.
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