macaque

[ UK /mˈækæk/ ]
NOUN
  1. short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
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  • Furthermore, outgroup comparison (with macaques, for example) indicates that some of these characters are primitive for the cercopithecid clade that includes these species (Papionina). Archive 2006-06-01
  • He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
  • All five macaque species occurring in Thailand are present, namely rhesus Macaca mulatta, crab-eating M. fascicularis, pig-tailed M. nemestrina, Assam M. assamensis and stump-tailed M. arctoides. Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
  • The island is home to troops of long-tailed macaques that live on the mangosteens, rambutans, jambus, mata kucings, and other fruits thriving among the groves of palm and dense thickets of casuarina and barrington trees.
  • They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
  • Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
  • Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
  • Long-tailed macaque monkeys and silver leaf monkeys are ever-present.
  • However, these forests contain numerous primate species such as several leaf-monkey species, slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), the region's largest gibbon and found only in Malaya and Sumatra's lowland forests. Sumatran lowland rain forests
  • The tiny macaque was given the moniker after it topped a public opinion poll. The Sun
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