As a word of warning, never attempt to look a snow monkey or wild animal straight in its eyes unless you have a relationship with them; they will most likely hiss at you and possibly lurch at you, but attacks are rare by snow monkeys other wild animals are a mixed bag. But a few years back, while leading my annual landscape wildlife snow monkey Hokkaido birding tour, I did see one guy touch a snow monkey while the monkey had his back to him and was relaxing in the hot springs, a game warden at the snow monkey park, and I tried to stop him, as he reached out, but we were too late, he got well deserved deep scratched across his face, luckily his jacket was thick, as the snow monkey had tried to bite his arm but did not bite hard enough to penetrate through his coat. But because of the scratches, he had to go to the hospital for deep cleaning and a rabies shot.
Communing with nature is beautiful; and has been my way of life since I was born into a wilderness-loving family; and I spend about a month a year or more in the backcountry camping, exploring forest bathing (shinrin-yoku); it's healing, and I am always searching for new power spots and scenic landscapes, birding wildlife regions to share with participants on my Japan photo tour workshops.