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The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), also known as the long-tailed macaque or cynomolgus macaque, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia. As a synanthropic species, the crab-eating macaque thrives near human settlements and in secondary forest. Crab-eating macaques have developed attributes and roles assigned to them by ...
The Nicobar long-tailed macaque is a frugivore, with its principal diet consisting of fruits and nuts. In common with other crab-eating macaques it turns to other sources of food—typically in the dry and early rainy tropical seasons—when the preferred fruits are unavailable.
The Karimunjawa long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis karimondjawae) is one of the seven recognized island subspecies of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis). [1] [2] This subspecies is endemic to two islands in the Karimunjawa archipelago (i.e., Karimunjawa and Kemujan islands), located about 80km north of Java, Indonesia. [3]
Acknowledging those limitations, the assessment team estimated that long-tailed macaques suffered a decline of at least 40% in the past 40 years and will face at least a 50% decline in the coming 40.
Sir David Attenborough describes how long-tailed macaques barter with tourists by stealing phones in the latest edition of Planet Earth.. The Planet Earth team has filmed the adapted behaviour of ...
When it comes to testing biopharmaceuticals, the fast-growing class of drugs that include monoclonal antibodies, long-tailed macaques (usually called cynomolgus monkeys or simply NHPs in lab ...
This picture captured with my DSLR Full Frame Camera, NIKON D750. They are many visitor watching and giving food to the long tailed macaques. One of the monkey was enjoyed eating a fruit names "Durian", which is the king of fruits in Malaysia. The fruits was given by visitors.
Long-tailed macaques are also responsible for the near extinction of several bird species on Mauritius by destroying the nests of the birds as they move through their native ranges and eat the eggs of critically endangered species, such as the pink pigeon and Mauritian green parrot. [17]