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  • 10
    Feb
    2012
    12:14pm, EST

    Freezing monkeys bundle up together for warmth

    Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty Images

    Japanese macaque monkeys huddle together to protect themselves against the cold weather at Awajishima Monkey Center on Feb. 10 in Sumoto, Hyogo, Japan. Severe winter weather has hit Japan with more heavy snow forecast today.

    Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty Images

    Japanese macaque monkeys huddle together to protect themselves against the cold weather at Awajishima Monkey Center on Feb. 10 in Sumoto, Hyogo, Japan. Severe winter weather has hit Japan with more heavy snow forecast today.

    If you can't get enough cute pictures of animals, check out our Animal Tracks slideshow... back by popular demand!

    Slideshow: Animal Tracks: Jan. 24 - 31

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    From a baby squirrel to a pile of meerkats, find images of creatures great and small.

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    Is there a peta group in japan? at least a few cardboard refridgerator boxes and a couple carosiene heaters ? People pay money to see the monkeys, Splurge a little japan $ 300. bucks a month tops......

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  • 20
    Oct
    2011
    3:11pm, EDT

    Rescued animals from Ohio farm at Columbus zoo

    Grahm S. Jones / Columbus Zoo via AP

    This is a handout photo from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium of one of two macaques that were captured by authorities Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, a day after their owned released dozens of wild animals and then killed himself near Zanesville, Ohio. Sheriff's deputies shot and killed 48 of the animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, a baboon, a wolf and three mountain lions. Six of the released animals - three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys - were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo.

    Grahm Jones / Columbus Zoo via Reuters

    A rescued leopard is pictured at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in this photograph released to Reuters on October 20, 2011.

    Grahm Jones / Columbus Zoo via Reuters

    A rescued brown bear is pictured on October 19, 2011 in this Columbus Zoo and Aquarium photograph released to Reuters on October 20, 2011.

    Grahm Jones / Columbus Zoo via Reuters

    A rescued black leopard is pictured on October 19, 2011 in this Columbus Zoo and Aquarium photograph released to Reuters on October 20, 2011. The exotic animal collector who set free his lions, tigers, bears and other beasts was bitten in the head by a big cat shortly after committing suicide, authorities said on Thursday. Three leopards, a young grizzly bear and two macaque monkeys were recaptured and sent to the Columbus Zoo, and a zoo spokeswoman said they "were doing very well" in the zoo's animal hospital.

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  • 27
    Jan
    2011
    12:03pm, EST

    Hiro Komae / AP

    A Japanese macaque bathes in the hot spring of Jigokudani Monkey Park in the mountains of Yamanouchi town, Nagano, central Japan, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. About 160 macaques, known as "snow monkeys" inhabit the park.

    Hot spring bath for snow monkey in Japan

    By Elena Grothe

    See a roundup of the week's best animal photos here.

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