{"id":218605,"date":"2010-01-22T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7fe6c50970b"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:22:57","slug":"your-morning-adorable-japanese-macaque-monkeys-relax-in-natures-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218605","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Japanese macaque monkeys relax in nature&#8217;s hot tub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877017092970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef012877017092970c-600wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 600px\"><\/img> <\/p>\n<p>We love <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_Macaque\">Japanese macaque<\/a> monkeys for many reasons. They&#8217;re intelligent and fun-loving, as evidenced by the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/01\/your-morning-adorable-japanese-macaque-monkey-makes-a-snowball.html\">they like to make snowballs<\/a> just for the sake of entertainment. As if that weren&#8217;t enough, these little monkeys also share a common trait with most humans we know: They love to relax in a nice hot tub.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>This fellow and his compatriots are shown enjoying a nice soak in a mountain hot spring in Japan&#8217;s Nagano province. Outside the spring, the weather is frigid; <em>inside<\/em> the spring, it&#8217;s nice and toasty!<\/p>\n<p>See more photos of the bathing monkeys after the jump (and if that&#8217;s not enough for you, you&#8217;ll be pleased to learn that you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp\/livecam\/monkey\/index.htm\">view the macaques via webcam<\/a> as well).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128770170ca970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128770170ca970c-600wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 600px\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128770170fc970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128770170fc970c-600wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 600px\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7fe6a5a970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7fe6a5a970b-600wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 600px\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701716a970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287701716a970c-600wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 600px\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hottubmonkey6\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877017235970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef012877017235970c-800wi\" title=\"In sub-zero temperatures Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of  a mountain hotsprings at Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) in Nagano Province  of central Japan\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss a single adorable animal: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Everett Kennedy Brown \/ European Pressphoto Agency<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love Japanese macaque monkeys for many reasons. They&#8217;re intelligent and fun-loving, as evidenced by the fact that they like to make snowballs just for the sake of entertainment. As if that weren&#8217;t enough, these little monkeys also share a common trait with most humans we know: They love to relax in a nice hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}