Japan’s Snow Monkeys Survive Harsh Winter By ‘Fishing’ Live Creatures From Streams
Monkeys, humankind’s closest relative, have always impressed with their intelligence and ingenuity and yet another example of this has come to light through a recent study. Inhabiting one of the globe’s coldest areas in Japan, snow monkeys have managed to live and survive the harsh winter by “going fishing”, that is lifting out creatures alive, including the brown trout, out of rivers of Japan and consuming them alive, states this new study. Native of the main Japanese islands, except Hokkaido, the snow monkey or the Japanese macaque Macaca fuscata is the non-human primate living most northerly. With the Kamikochi area of Chubu Sangaku National Park located in the Japanese Alps covered in snow, these creatures are confronted with scarcity of their preferred food. Also read: Vulture bees of Costa Rica feast on meat Faced with such adverse conditions, the monkeys running low on energy are bound to die of starvation but the streams that are fed by groundwater with a constant temperatur