Takasakiyama, the monkey mountain (高崎山自然動物園) 高崎山自然動物園
760 wild, free-ranging Japanese macaques in two troops: B (514 animals) and C (246).
高崎山自然動物園 studies and shows the public a population of wild Japanese macaques that has lived free on Mount Takasaki, between the municipalities of Ōita and Beppu, since the municipality began feeding them at a fixed spot in the fifties to keep them away from the farmland. The animals remain undomesticated and in the wild: the park is limited to an observation area where the troops come down to eat, while the staff follow their social structure and publish it in regular updates.
Oita
Higashi-Beppu
