Japanese macaques are famous for soaking in hot springs during winter, but new research suggests this behavior may serve ...

L ike humans, some other primates like to huddle in hot springs. Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata ), also called “snow monkeys,” famously gather at natural hot springs to soak together for hours.

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

They found that bathing in hot springs subtly reshapes the snow monkeys’ relationships with their parasites and gut microbes. The macaques that bathe showed different lice distributions and gut ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

Japan's snow monkeys soak in hot springs for thermoregulation and to relieve stress – a new study suggests there is another ...

Nagano Prefecture in the midwinter. At Jigokudani Onsen in Yamanouchi‐machi, Shimotakai‐gun, you can see the monkey "Snow Monkey" soaked in the hot spring every day. "Why don't they get cold after the ...

On January 11, 2026, in Sichuan Province, located in southwestern China, a video recorded several monkeys relaxing in a ...