TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,John
TI  - Herding monkeys to paradise : how macaque troops are managed for tourism in Japan 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2011
SN  - 9789004203242
AV  - QL737.P93 K55 2011
U1  - 599.8/644 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - Japan
KW  - Japanese macaque
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Mammal populations
KW  - Wildlife management
KW  - Wildlife viewing sites
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-609) and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004187931.i-629
ER  -