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A pig-tailed macaque yanked at a coconut on a piece of string until it fell to the floor, a small victory for the simian student at a Malaysian school that trains monkeys to harvest fruit for farmers. Thousands of monkeys have been taught the trade ...
Nagano's snow monkeys bathe in hot springs to relieve stress, study says
Japanese monkeys in Nagano Prefecture's Jigokudani valley appear to have lower levels of a stress hormone than usual when they bath in natural hot springs during winter to warm up, a study has said. A team including Rafaela Sayuri Takeshita, a researcher at Kyoto University's ...
German carmakers draw flak over pollutant tests on monkeys and humans
Public criticism of the German auto industry has escalated after a report that an industry-sponsored entity commissioned a study of the effects of diesel exhaust using monkeys, while another study exposed humans to low levels of one type of air pollutant. The German government on ...
Japanese team's antibody treatment returns 80% of finger function to paralyzed monkeys
A joint research team formed by Kyoto University and Osaka University has succeeded in repairing finger function in monkeys with spinal cord injuries by using an antibody to thwart a protein that blocks neural regeneration. Details of the findings made by the team, which includes ...
A series of monkey sightings around Tokyo continued on Tuesday, as what appears to be a solo wild animal traversed eastern parts of the metropolis. Katsushika Ward used its Twitter account to keep the public updated Tuesday morning, noting the latest sighting locations and warning ...
Antibody cocktail halts Zika in monkeys as researchers look next toward human trials
A cocktail of three antibodies has shown promise in preventing Zika virus infection in monkeys, and moves next into trials in humans, researchers said Wednesday. The mosquito-borne Zika virus swept across Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern United States in 2015 and 2016, sparking a ...
Seto man and his snow monkey entertain audiences for 23 years and counting
Jubei, a Japanese macaque, works hard to entertain the public together with his trainer, Yasutaka Kawabe, 44, from Kamamachi in Seto, Aichi Prefecture. The duo attracts audiences with well-coordinated moves. Jubei is 26 years old, equivalent to about 80 in human years, making him the ...
Kyoto University reprograms stem cells to fight Parkinson's in monkeys, a breakthrough for therapy
Japanese researchers successfully engineered cells to relieve Parkinson’s symptoms in clinical trials, taking a step closer to a potential cure.
Oita deploys drone disguised as hawk to scare off farm-raiding monkeys
The Oita Municipal Government is trying to scare off wild, farm-raiding monkeys by using a drone made to look like a hawk. The Tanoura district on the east side of Mount Takasaki, home to a popular monkey park, is known as a producer of loquats, ...
Macaques might make monkeys of us all
In 1980, when I came to live here in Kurohime in the hills of northern Nagano Prefecture, we had neither deer, wild boar nor monkeys in this area because — so the locals said — there was too much snow in winter for them ...
Monkeys can make strategic choices based on memory: Japanese research
Monkeys can make judgments based on memory and be confident about their strategic choices, according to a study released Friday. Researchers from Juntendo University and Tokyo University tested to see if "metamemory" — the ability to monitor one's memories, a process that is characteristic of ...
Hailing the benefits of raising a stink
In the 1980s, when I was living in northern Nagano Prefecture and hiking the mountains with members of the local Hunters Association, I was always making a lot of fuss about the depredation of ancient forests being instigated by the Forestry Agency — a ...
