Monkey Culture: Japanese snow monkeys washing potatoes
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Uploaded by tehinfidel on Oct 31, 2009
Japanese snow monkeys (macaques, 日本猿 - nihonzaru, Macaca fuscata) on Koshima display group learning and culture by discovering and sharing the technique of washing sweet potatoes in fresh water to rinse off sand and dirt, and then salt-water, to add flavor. They also discover how to separate sand and rice clumps by throwing the mixture into water and letting the rice float to the surface.
Parts are closed-captioned due to background surf noise.
From the BBC documentary "Life on Earth: Episode 12: Life in the Trees" (1979), narrated by a younger David Attenborough.
More Information:
► http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Earth_(TV_series)
► http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Macaque
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Wow, he looks totally different LOL.
I'd say this is beyond simple culture. It's nothing different from what we do... It's amazing to me :)
2 years ago 17
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Thank you so much for sharing your video's. they brought a huge smile to my face. Fantastic!
2 years ago 16
All Comments (52)
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look at those monkeys, and their sweet sweet potatoes
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suck macaque.
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david he was cute
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David Attenborough is my hero. And Japanese macaque's are still my favorite motherfuckin' monkeys. I'd be depressive if there were no monkeys in this world. I would be an emo
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Oh my God... I can't believe it is Attenborough! He looks sooo young!
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日本人は猿なんて食べない。
犬も食べない。
猫も食べない。
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They stole his comb too.
At 0:37 that doesn't look like a sweet potato.
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I love the fat one at 1:17 that runs off with two.
4 months ago 2
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Brilliant! It'd be amazing to see such changes over the decades.
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@soopaflychic,
I see that you are a Korean woman living in Australia. You have posted over 2,200 abusive comments about Japan and the Japanese people on the internet. We researched what some Koreans, like you, are posting vicious comments about the Japanese while pretending to be a different person and belonging to a different race: sometimes Chinese, American or even Japanese. Stop your mind-control games, put on for foreign people in the world, and your insincere comments.
Mickey44421 1 year ago 14
@Mickey44421 Oh, I didn't know s/he was a bizarre, racist troll. Anyway, his/her account is now banned on YouTube (not my doing, but I'm not sad.)
tehinfidel 1 year ago