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Female northern pig-tailed macaque in Khao Yai. Physical characteristics identifiers in distinguishing the northern and the southern pig-tailed macaques. [10] Northern pig-tailed macaques have a round greyish pelage from the side of their cheeks all the way around to the top of their head and beneath their chin, which is called a crown. [10]
Southern pig-tailed macaque or beruk, Macaca nemestrina (Northern Malaysia and southern Thailand to Borneo and western Indonesia) Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Members of this family are called cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, and include baboons, colobuses, guenons, lutungs, macaques, and other types of monkeys. Cercopithecoidea contains only a single family, Cercopithecidae , and includes nearly half of the species in the suborder Haplorhini , itself one of two suborders in the order Primates.
Assam macaques are found in higher elevation areas of southern Tibet and the Southwest, and the northern pig-tailed macaque in Yunnan. Macaques are Class I protected species in China but their numbers have fallen sharply. Monkey brain is a delicacy in parts of Guangxi and Guangdong, and macaques are often hunted for food. [13]
The Cercopithecinae are a subfamily of the Old World monkeys, which comprises roughly 71 species, including the baboons, the macaques, and the vervet monkeys.Most cercopithecine monkeys are limited to sub-Saharan Africa, although the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, as well as on Gibraltar.
Sun bear: Helarctos malayanus Raffles, 1821: Forest & shrubland ... Northern pig-tailed macaque: Macaca leonina Blyth, 1863: Forest VU: Rhesus macaque: Macaca mulatta
Northern pig-tailed macaque; Southern pig-tailed macaque; Gorontalo macaque; ... Sloth bear; Colombian weasel; Sunda clouded leopard; Clouded leopard; Snow leopard;
Northern Pig-tail Macaque, Macaca leonina, alpha male in Khao Yai national park, Thailand. This photo is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike Licence. You are free to use this image, as long as it is shared with attribution under the same licence together with the appropriate credits: By: Tontan Travel