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Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops Are Managed for Tourism in Japan

By John Knight

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2011
ISBN
9004187936, 9789004187931
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12245190 bytes)
Series
Human-Animal Studies
Pages
628\648
Time added
2015-03-04 02:22:20

Description

This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution.

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