https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-'snow-monkey'-park-to-cap-visitors-after-overcrowding-bad-behaviour"Some have even "tried to bathe" together with the animals, the official said".... again who we talkin about here? the monkeys or the japs? who are the 'animals'?
It's tourists. I know of this because I watched Thermae Romae Novae and it had a pop culture reference about the caretakers being annoyed by humans going into the monkey-exclusive pools.
have to be mad to get into a hot spring with a bunch of monkeys. Apart from the hygiene issues, anything could happen.