The Story Behind Japan’s Bathing Monkeys

By JAMES GORMAN and CHRISTOPHER WHITWORTH Science https://ift.tt/2uMcmEE
Monkeys and Apes, Anxiety and Stress, Hormones, Bathing and Showering, Animal Behavior For the famed snow monkeys, a troop of Japanese macaques that live near Nagano, soaking in hot springs eases the stress of cold winters. But how did they come to adopt this habit?