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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).
The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), also known as the Sundaland pig-tailed macaque and the Sunda pig-tailed macaque, [2] is a medium-sized macaque that lives in Sundaland, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is known locally as beruk. [3]
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]
The same team of researchers announced in 2018 that they had made two identical cloned cynomolgus monkeys (a type of macaque), ... including pigs, cows, horses and dogs, but the process has been ...
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. On average, a southern pig-tailed macaque ( M. nemestrina ) in Malaysia eats about 70 large rats each year.
Traditionally, companies have used two animal models—one small, like rodents and one large, like a long-tailed macaque—to study drugs before they enter human trials. What drives the decision ...
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.
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) Multiple accounts of captive individuals preparing, transporting, and capturing food with tools Shepherd, 1910; Hobhouse, 1926; Parks & Novak, 1993; Erwin, 1974 Pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) Multiple accounts of captive individuals using tools to capture food and perform physical maintenance Beck, 1976