Awaji Island Monkey Centre
A wild troop of Japanese macaques at the feeding ground on Awaji Island, live webcam from the centre.
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The Awaji Island Monkey Centre sits in the hills above Sumoto, on Awaji, the biggest island in the Seto Inland Sea, and this live cam looks over the ground where a wild troop of macaques comes down to be fed.
The monkeys are wild and come and go as they please, so the picture swings between a crowded ground at feeding time and an empty one an hour later. Youngsters wrestle, adults groom in pairs, and the troop's order shows in who eats first. Japanese macaques live further north than any other wild primate, and the Awaji troop is known for its habit of huddling into big clusters on cold days, dozens of animals pressed together for warmth.
Awaji keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving. The island covers 592 square kilometres between Honshu and Shikoku, joined to both by bridges, and some 120,000 people live on it. The monkeys are most reliable in the middle of the day, which is the middle of the night in Europe.
