Monkey Gone To...Shimokita?

How many tired and painfully unfunny monkey puns can I work into this post? Does anyone wanna wager a guess? On second thought, maybe I had better just get on with the show and stop monkeying around.

The Japanese Macaque, commonly referred to as the snow monkey, is one of Aomori's indigenous treasures. The variety found in Shimokita is actually the Northernmost naturally occuring primate in the world (excepting, of course, human beings and Canadians). Despite the fact that they are technically classified as a "threatened population" they proved shockingly easy to find in the mountainous areas surrounding Hotokegaura. Can you find the monkeys in the photographs below, a la Where's Waldo? I swear, this isn't just some cheap attempt to obfuscate the fact that I was unable to get close enough to the little bastards to take any decent photos.