The Kingussie troop
I spent last week at the Highland Wildlife Park in Inverness-shire,
where there is a troop of 18 Japanese macaques. I am using this troop
in a pilot study of personality in this species.
Overall, the enclosure the animals in quite large, so much so that
there is little need to speak of 'enrichment.' Among the trees, pond,
heather, and 3 Japanese serow sharing the space, the environment seems
to keep the monkeys occupied.
In the time I was there I had begun to recognize about half of the
troop (I am even poor at describing what people look like, so it takes
me a while to code and condense information about all but a few
visually striking of the monkeys).
