Japanese macaques winter basking in the lake (10 photos)

Japanese macaque - the only species of monkeys that live on the Japanese islands. This is the most northern monkey in the world. Local residents retell that first began to take a warm bath is one of the females, who climbed into the water to get spilled the beans. She taught all bask monkey community.
On cold days, snow monkeys are caught in warm water. When they are beyond the food due to freezing of wet wool further. Then the monkeys triggered a peculiar system of duty. Two animals with dry hair food trays, while others sit in water.