L ike humans, some other primates like to huddle in hot springs. Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata ), also called “snow monkeys,” famously gather at natural hot springs to soak together for hours.

Is there anything more magical and inviting than a misty, secluded hot spring on a cold winter day? Maybe, but I haven’t ...

Some are strictly for looking at and others are for soaking it up. Proceed with caution. Since natural hot springs can bubble up from beneath the earth's surface above the boiling point, most of the ...

Japanese macaques are famous for soaking in hot springs during winter, but new research suggests this behavior may serve ...

The snow monkeys of Japan are famous, as monkeys go. This troop of Japanese macaques lives in the north, near Nagano, the mountainous, snowy site of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Others of their species ...

They found that bathing in hot springs subtly reshapes the snow monkeys’ relationships with their parasites and gut microbes. The macaques that bathe showed different lice distributions and gut ...

Travelers looking to soak in a natural thermal or mineral spring are most likely to think about jetting off to Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, a spa in Bath, England, or perhaps visiting one of Japan’s famous ...

Jackson, Wyoming In the Gros Ventre Mountains south of Wyoming’s ritziest tourist town, Granite Hot Springs offers low-key access to the area’s healing geothermal waters, with both a natural spring ...