Video. The record crowds of the spare thermal sources for monkeys?

The macaques of the hot sources of Jigokudani Park in Japan attract record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, including 60 % foreigners.

Tourists flock to see the macaques swim in natural hot sources of hot water in order to survive cold, but concerns about animal welfare are increasingly lively. Visitors sometimes break the park’s rules by touching or nourishing monkeys.

If tourism has boosted the finances of the park, it has also led to injury and problems of control of crowds, which arouses concerns about the well-being of the monkeys.