Herding monkeys to paradise : how macaque troops are managed for tourism in Japan / / by John Knight.

• Superior document: Human-animal studies ; 10
• Author: Knight, John, 1960-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human-animal studies ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / J. Knight -- Introduction / J. Knight -- 1. Monkeys In Paradise / J. Knight -- 2. Searching For Monkeys / J. Knight -- 3. Provisioning The Monkeys / J. Knight -- 4. Working With Monkeys / J. Knight -- 5. Herding The Monkeys / J. Knight -- 6. Keeping Out Monkeys / J. Knight -- 7. Transforming The Monkeys / J. Knight -- 8. Restoring The Monkeys / J. Knight -- Conclusion / J. Knight -- Bibliography / J. Knight -- Index / J. Knight.