TOKYO — Authorities in a southern Japanese city feared a band of marauding monkeys might still be on the loose Wednesday, even as they detained and killed a primate perpetrator suspected in a spate of ...
There've been at least 58 attacks on people since July 8. It's so bad that the city of Yamaguchi has created a special unit to hunt and tranquilize the animals. Reading time 2 minutes In just the past ...
In the mid-1960s, a troop of Japanese macaques were rampaging around Mihara, a town just east of Hiroshima, eating crops and pissing off local farmers. The authorities took drastic action in 1964.