Snow monkey or Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
* Family: Cercopithecidae,
* Genus: Macaca,
* Species: M. fuscata,
* Type: Mammal,
* Diet: Omnivore,
* Average life span in the wild:
* Size: 79 to 95 cm, with a tail length of approximately 10 cm,
* Weight: 10 to 14 kg, females, around 5.5 kg,
** Do you know? Japanese monkey is inhabited in the north area. And northern part of Japan has a lot of snow during a few months. Generally, the temperature is minus 10 degree C. Japanese monkey is living in the natural environment, so they have called snow monkey.
*** Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), 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.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Macaque
or http://www.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp/english/snowmonkey/snowmonkey.html