Season 13Episode 6⏱ 10 minutes

The Monkey & Deer Best Friends 🦌🐒

📍 Yakushima, Japan

The Monkey & Deer Best Friends – Yakushima, Japan
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What happens

On Yakushima island in Japan, in a mossy forest of ancient cedars, red-faced macaques and little Yakushika deer are best friends: a monkey drops fruit and a deer waits underneath to catch it. Then the monkey drops the ball instead and the deer takes it home!

Fun facts

  • Yakushima's oldest cedar trees may be thousands of years old.
  • Deer follow the monkeys to eat the fruit they drop.
  • Japanese macaques have bright red faces.

Say hello like a local

In this episode everyone learns to say Konnichiwa!

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