National Geographic UK - 03.2020
BY RENE EBERSOLE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASPER DOEST Japanese macaques have a long history as entertainers and cultural symbols. But in ...
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PREVIOUS PHOTO Trainers with the Sen-zu No Sarumawashi performance group in Kawasaki take their diapered charges on daily walks ...
The monkeys wore soccer uniforms. Six Japanese macaques standing erect on leashes obediently kicked the ball up and down the tur ...
male macaque in a kimono struck macho poses and leaped over high hurdles. Soon it was time to line up at the amphithe- ater, whe ...
Tourists watch the staff at Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, out- side Kyoto, feed wild Japanese macaques. Such provisioning ha ...
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IN NATURE, Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are hardy creatures. No other nonhuman primate lives at such northern ...
millions of dollars in lost crops—mostly fruits and vegetables. Growers use fencing, scare- crows, and pyrotechnics to deter mon ...
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At Kayabuki Tavern, diners laugh while clapping for masked monkeys. When the performance is over, customers ask to have their ph ...
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Kaoru Amagai lives in a traditional Japanese home in Ota, Gunma, with three pet macaques. He says he treats the monkeys as he wo ...
happens to animals when they’re no longer used by the entertainment industry.” But Oikawa said that people critical of the attra ...
We stepped into his troupe’s practice room, where Harada introduced me to his colleagues and their furry collaborators dressed i ...
These women have helped pave the way for new generations of National Geographic explorers. Asha de Vos BIOLOGIST Maria Mitchell ...
BY NINA STROCHLIC | ARCHIVAL RESEARCH BY SARA MANCO TRAILBLAZERS ...
Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 First person to discover a comet by telescope; first woman to work as a professional astronomer in the ...
The discovery of a comet propelled astronomer Maria Mitchell (seen at left, about 1880) to celebrity status in the mid-1800s. Sh ...
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