I have only limited experience with Japanese monkeys, but one moment etched permanent caution. After I teasingly tapped at one through a windshield (he was sitting on the hood of our parked car), he bared a huge row of teeth, and glared with an enraged pink HUMAN FACE at me. He then shook his fist right at my stunned mug through the glass.
The message was crystal: “Tap that glass one more time, punk, and I’ll eat your ugly ass face!”
For sure watch out around them. The ones by my house are normally not aggressive unless you get too close. One of my friends though, got cornered by monkeys while on a mountain run and almost got scratched up.
I have only limited experience with Japanese monkeys, but one moment etched permanent caution. After I teasingly tapped at one through a windshield (he was sitting on the hood of our parked car), he bared a huge row of teeth, and glared with an enraged pink HUMAN FACE at me. He then shook his fist right at my stunned mug through the glass.
The message was crystal: “Tap that glass one more time, punk, and I’ll eat your ugly ass face!”
For sure watch out around them. The ones by my house are normally not aggressive unless you get too close. One of my friends though, got cornered by monkeys while on a mountain run and almost got scratched up.