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Snow Monkey - Japanese macaque

Macaca fuscata

Description:

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

Habitat:

the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species native to Japan, although an introduced free-ranging population has been living near Laredo, Texas[2] since 1972.[3][4][5] It is the most northern-living as well as the most polar-living non-human primate. In Japan, it was historically known as saru ("monkey").


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Nagano, Japan

Lat: 36.20, Long: 138.25

Spotted on May 30, 2011
Submitted on May 30, 2011

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