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The Arashiyama group of Japanese macaques holds a distinguished place in primatology as one of the longest continuously studied non-human primate populations in the world. The resulting long-term data provide a unique resource for researchers, allowing them to move beyond cross-sectional studies to tackle larger issues involving individual, matrilineal and group histories. This book presents an overview of the scope and magnitude of research topics and management efforts that have been conducted on this population for several decades, covering not only the original troop living around Kyoto, Japan, but also the two subgroups that were translocated to Texas, USA and Montreal, Canada. The chapters encompass topics including life history, sexual, social and cultural behaviour and ecology, giving an insight into the range of current primatological research. The contributors underscore the historic value of the Arashiyama macaques and showcase new and significant research findings that highlight their continuing importance to primatology.

Japanese macaque --- Social behavior in animals --- Primates --- Quadrumana --- Mammals --- Animal behavior --- Animal societies --- Macaca fuscata --- Snow monkeys --- Macaques --- Behavior --- Research

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This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution.

Ecotourism --- Japanese macaque --- Mammal populations --- Wildlife management --- Wildlife viewing sites --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Sites, Wildlife viewing --- Sites, Wildlife watching --- Viewing areas, Wildlife --- Viewing sites, Wildlife --- Watching sites, Wildlife --- Wildlife viewing areas --- Wildlife watching sites --- Natural areas --- Blinds (Hunting) --- Animal populations --- Game management --- Management, Game --- Management, Wildlife --- Plant populations --- Wildlife resources --- Natural resources --- Wildlife conservation --- Vertebrate populations --- Macaca fuscata --- Snow monkeys --- Macaques --- Behavior. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Management --- Japanese macaque. --- Macaque japonais --- Faune --- Ecotourisme --- Mammifères --- Behavior --- Effect of human beings on --- Moeurs et comportement --- Effets de l'homme sur --- Observation --- Sites --- Aménagement --- Populations