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The Japanese macaque is omnivorous and eats a variety of foods. More than 213 species of plants are included in the macaque's diet. [62] They also eat insects, bark, and soil. [62] On Yakushima Island, fruit, mature leaves, and fallen seeds are primarily eaten. [63] The macaque also eats fungi, ferns, invertebrates, and other parts of plants. [63]
Macaques are principally frugivorous (preferring fruit), although their diet also includes seeds, leaves, flowers, and tree bark. Some species such as the long-tailed macaque ( M. fascicularis ; also called the crab-eating macaque) will supplement their diets with small amounts of meat from shellfish, insects, and small mammals.
The Yakushima macaque population in Yakushima Island lies at the southern limit of Japanese macaque's distribution. The current population is estimated to be somewhere between 9,500–19,000 animals, according to a survey completed in 1999.
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.
Snow monkeys, otherwise known as Japanese macaques, are found on three of the four main Japanese islands, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and live further north than any other macaque species ...
Old World monkey genera include baboons (genus Papio), red colobus (genus Piliocolobus), and macaques (genus Macaca). Common names for other Old World monkeys include the talapoin , guenon , colobus , douc (douc langur, genus Pygathrix ), vervet , gelada , mangabey (a group of genera), langur , mandrill , drill , surili ( Presbytis ), patas ...
The Japanese flying squirrel is a tiny, nocturnal creature that looks like something out of a fairytale. ... 31 macaque monkeys have been rescued from Indonesia’s last remaining ‘monkey dance ...
Female Japanese macaques are "more likely than males to turn up their noses at contaminated food," experts say. Cecile Sarabian, a cognitive ecologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in ...