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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.
In 2011, approximately 605 crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) – 39 adult males, 38 male sub-adults, 194 adult females, 243 juveniles, and 91 infants – lived in the Ubud Monkey Forest; [7] they are known locally as the Balinese long-tailed monkey. [3]
The long-tailed macaque causes severe damage to parts of its range where it has been introduced because the populations grow unchecked due to a lack of predators. [16] On the island of Mauritius, they have created serious conservation concerns for other endemic species .
These long-tailed macaques, some as young as eight months old, were horrifically torn from the wild and subjected to months of brutal training designed to force them to dance for money in front of ...
Cool Facts About Macaque Monkeys. Japanese Macaques, also referred to as Snow Monkeys and Old-World Monkeys, are most well-known for their unique looks. They have a thick greyish coat, short tails ...
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.
Cloned monkeys can be genetically engineered in complex ways that wild-type monkeys cannot; this has many implications for disease modeling. There is also a species conservation perspective,” he ...
The Philippine long-tailed macaque has a reddish-brown coat. [citation needed] It can reach a length of 890–1,200 mm (35–47 in).Its tail has an average length of 440 to 600 mm (17 to 24 in).