LIFE OF A "JAPANESE MACAQUE";

 

The Japanese macaque also known as the "snow monkey", is a terrestrial old world monkey species that is native to Japan.

They get there name "snow monkey" because the live in areas where snow covers the grand for months each year-no other nonhuman primate is more northern-living, nor lives in a colder climate.

 

Individuals have brown-grey fur, red face, and short tail.

Two sub species are known.

Japanese macaque live in matrilineal societies, and females stay in their natal groups for life, while males move out before they are sexually mature.

The Japanese macaque is the northern most-living nonhuman primate.

 

It is found on three of the four main Japanese island:

                                                                                                                           Honshu,

   Shikoku, and Kyushu.



The northern most populations live on the Shimokita Peninsula, the northern most points of Honshu.

Several of Japanese smaller islands are also inhabited by macaque.

The southern most population living on Yokushima island is a subspecies of mainland macaque.

A study in 1989 estimated the total population of wild Japanese macaque to be 114,431 monkeys.