Snow Monkey Carnival
My friend Erica has sent me the most delightful link. It is a webcam, like many others. It refreshes every minute or so, and displays an image. Of course, instead of an image of some office, or a fat guy on his computer, or some sort of pre-recorded softcore pornography, it shows something you actually want to see.
Yes, those delightful little apes that live in the mountains of Japan, enduring long winters by swimming about in the natural hot springs. They are very clever little beasts, even going so far as to bring tubers into the hottest parts of the pools to cook them. After a few hours, they retrieve the tubers, and enjoy their boiled potatoes in the same way we would, except without silverware or napkins or anything.
The image is also very high quality, with a true SVGA size, and a good crisp camera, this is no Logitech crapola.
The monkeys aren’t always visible, but at night (which is daytime in Japan) you can often see monkeys sitting around lounging in the hot spring, with excited tourists peering at them from the bank. Earlier today the camera was off kilter for a few frames before being righted, which leads me to believe that a monkey threw a tuber at it.
Enjoy the Snow Monkey Webcam!
Monday 09 May 2005 | Sam | Lovely Links