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

by John Knight and John Knight

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004187936
• ISBN13: 9789004187931
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"