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Bathing Snow Monkey, Japan, 1995

Japanese macaques, also called snow monkeys, live farther north than any other non-human primates. Their thick coats help them survive the frigid temperatures of central Japan's highlands. But when the mercury really plummets, they go to plan B: hot-tubbing in the region's many thermal springs.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Geisha," October 1995, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Jodi Cobb