Japan Post will not deliver live reptiles starting from April on animal welfare grounds, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday ...

People visiting a zoo in western Japan have had the opportunity to touch a snake, the Japanese and Chinese zodiac ... They touched the reptile and some of them held its belly.

Humans and monkeys may have evolved their keen ability to detect snakes due to a fear response triggered by the reptiles' scales ... experiments using three Japanese macaques born in captivity ...