Habitual hot-spring bathing by a group o
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Peng Zhang; Kunio Watanabe; Tokida Eishi
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Japanese macaques (__Macaca fuscata__) in a freeβranging group in Jigokudani valley, Nagano prefecture, are known to bathe in a hot spring. We used scan sampling in a study aimed at elucidating the causal factors and possible social transmission of this behavior. From 1980β2003, 31% of