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One of the self-portraits of a crested macaque involved in the Monkey selfie copyright dispute. The copyright to an artistic work is typically held by its author. In cases where the artistic work was created by an animal, intellectual property analysts Mary M. Luria and Charles Swan have argued that neither the human who provides the equipment ...
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.
Some notable examples are: the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac; the belief that "stable monkeys" will protect the health and safety of horses (see below); the traditional Chinese symbolic contrast between the superior, supernatural gibbon and the inferior, foolish macaque; and mythological monkeys like the Kakuen "a legendary monkey ...
The macaques (/ m ə ˈ k ɑː k,-ˈ k æ k /) [2] constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa , and Europe (in Gibraltar ).
Like all Old World monkeys, the Barbary macaque has well-developed sitting pads (ischial callosities) on its rear. [19] Females exhibit an exaggerated anogenital swelling, [20] [21] which increases in size during oestrus. [22] [23] It has cheek pouches and high-crowned bilophodont molars (molars with two ridges); the third molar is elongated. [19]
The Heck's macaque (Macaca hecki) is a macaque of Sulawesi, Indonesia. This Old World monkey is diurnal. Heck's macaques live within groups of 10 to 15 individuals in home ranges of 100 hectares. The males leave the group they are born in when they become sexually mature and join other groups to avoid inbreeding.
Ruthless owners of monkeys are torturing their animals on social media for money and “likes”, a study has found.. The content creators physically and mentally abuse macaques getting tens of ...
The Moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque monkey with brown/black body fur with a pale rump patch and pink bare skin on the rump. It has ischial callosities , which are oval-shaped. [ 3 ] It is about 50–58.5 cm long, and eats figs , bamboo seeds, buds, sprouts, invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforests .