Kojima
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| Waters | Hyūga-nada , Pacific | |
| Geographical location | 31 ° 27 '10 " N , 131 ° 22' 35" E | |
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| surface | 30 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 113.7 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Kojima ( Jap. 幸島 , dt. "Isle of happiness") is an approximately 30 hectare large island , to Japan belongs. It is located off the southeast coast of the large island of Kyushu and belongs to the administrative area of the city of Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture . The island is known for its Japanese macaque population and is therefore also called "Monkey Island" ( 猿 島 , sarushima ).
The highest point on the island is at 113.7 m.
Japanese macaques
The island is under protection and is a habitat u. a. of Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata , Japanese 日本 猿 , nihonzaru ). On the island is a station of the Field Research Center of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University .
The Japanese macaques have been scientifically observed on the island of Kōjima since 1947. With over 50 years of continuous research into the behavior, ecology, and other aspects of the biology of these monkeys, the station has the world's longest tradition of uninterrupted field research in the field of primates .
The current research station was built in 1968. Since then, data on the entire monkey population has been recorded continuously. a. Migration, death and birth of individual individuals and their weight development.
The island became known worldwide when in 1953 the farmer Satsue Mito observed the female macaque Imo when she invented the washing of potatoes and passed her discovery on to other animals in the group. This represents the first scientifically documented example of cultural development in animals. Since that time, numerous new behaviors have been developed by the monkeys that have been culturally passed on, for example the flotation of cereal grains, bathing and swimming in the sea and the ingestion of seaweed and fish in the food spectrum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Koujima Navigator. Kushima Tourism Association, archived from the original on May 26, 2008 ; Retrieved September 17, 2010 (Japanese).
- ↑ Frans de Waal : The monkey and the sushi master . Hanser, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-446-20238-2
- ↑ Kawamura, S. (1959). The process of sub-culture propagation among Japanese macaques. Primates, 2 (1), 43-60