Since the early 1970s, South Texas has been home to a troop of Japanese snow monkeys. | via TexasStandard
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“I had a tremendous emotional attachment from the moment I heard about snow monkeys. [They] were revered in Japan, and so I grew up on fairy tales about these cuddly little animals,” she said. “And I always had a dream: ‘Maybe someday I’ll get to hold one.’ Well, I end up at graduate school at UT, in journalism. And lo and behold, they put out an announcement for a snow monkey roundup. And that’s where our lives intersected.
“I knew she would not have been alive. But, you know, a big part of the importance of this troop, and a big part of why there was so much money and effort and expense put into relocating them in Texas, is because they’re the only group of primates [whose] genealogy has been studied for decades,” she said. “So they knew all the family lines, family relationships, friendship relationships – a very, very vital source of data. And they kept track of the matrilineal lines.
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