This ebook is a examine of using monkeys as a vacationer allure in Japan. Monkey parks are renowned customer points of interest that demonstrate free-ranging troops of jap macaques to the paying public. The parks paintings via manipulating the events of the monkey troop throughout the usual provision of meals handouts at a hard and fast web site the place the monkeys could be simply seen. the program of administration ends up in numerous difficulties, together with proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. as well as falling customer numbers, those difficulties have resulted in the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into query the way forward for the monkey park as an establishment.
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