Product Description: The Animals on the Brink series explores the science, myths, and folklore of some of the worlds most endangered animals. Readers will learn about each animals life cycle, classification, place in the food chain, social organization with other animals, communication, and more...read more

Product Description: When baby Ribbon arrives, visitors to Japan's Awaji Island Monkey Center wonder how she is going to manage with no hands and with small, twisted feet. How will she hold on to her mother? How will she walk? How will she climb in the trees? How will she interact with the other monkeys? And how will she someday look after her own baby? But everyone is in for a surprise...read more

Describes the snow monkeys of Japan and their food, habitat, and social system

Full-color photographs and descriptive text focus on the macaque monkeys of Japan, explaining how these monkeys, noted for their intelligence, survive the cold winters of their native environment

Photographs and informative commentary record the growth and development of the unusual snow monkey of Japan, from the mating of a young female through the birth and nurturing of her young