The Japanese Macaque also known as 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 since 1972. It is the most northern-living as well as the most polar-living non-human primate. In Japan, they were historically known asSaru ("monkey"). Nihonzaru (Nihon "Japan" + saru) is used in modern times to distinguish from other primates.
The Japanese Macaque lives in mountainous areas of Honshū, Japan. It survives winter temperatures below -15 °C (5°F), and is perhaps most notable for the amount of time it spends in naturally heated volcanic hot springs in Snow Monkey park located in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano Prefecture, close to a historical hot springarea named Shibu Onsen. In the 1979 TV series Life on Earth, David Attenborough notes that the monkeys (not the entire population) first moved into the volcanic area with the springs, "Only a few years ago."
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