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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.
Indeed, the long-tailed macaque is now extinct in Bangladesh and fast disappearing from other locations, the report noted. Complicating matters is a lack of solid population data, as large-scale ...
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 .
On these islands, long-tailed macaques are found in mangrove forests and coastal and lowland tropical rainforest. [3] Assessments indicate that the area of occupancy (AOO) of the Karimunjawa long-tailed macaque is shrinking; in 2008, the AOO was estimated to be 23.47 km^2, yet in 2017 the AOO was estimated at 12.86 km^2. [1]
Without the long-tailed macaque, says the National Association of Biomedical Research, 53% of the 19,742 drugs and biologics currently in development “may never make it to market.”
The same team of researchers announced in 2018 that they had made two identical cloned cynomolgus monkeys (a type of macaque), ... and there can be high failure and mortality rates.” ...
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.
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 ...