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Lion-tailed macaques are omnivores, primarily eating indigenous fruits, seeds, flowers, insects, snails, and small vertebrates in virgin forest. Lion-tailed macaques are very important for seed dispersal, and are able to transport seeds long distances by either dropping or defecating seeds. However, due to changes in their environment, adaption ...
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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 .
Nicobar long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis umbrosa) Miller, 1902; Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) (Zimmermann, 1780) Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala) Sinha et al., 2004 [5] Northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) (Blyth, 1863) Bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata) (E. Geoffroy, 1812) Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) (Linnaeus, 1758)
In a major victory for animal welfare, 31 macaque monkeys have been rescued from Indonesia’s last remaining ‘monkey dance training village’ by the Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN), with ...
The sanctuary was expanded by adding the Aghanashini Lion Tailed Macaque Conservation Reserve (299.52 km 2 (115.65 sq mi)) [4] and some of the reserved forests (200 km 2 (77 sq mi)) in Uttara Kannada & Shivamogga districts, to the existing sanctuary. After expansion, the sanctuary has been renamed as the Sharavathi Lion Tailed Macaque Wildlife ...
Sir David Attenborough describes how long-tailed macaques barter with tourists by stealing phones in the latest edition of Planet Earth.. The Planet Earth team has filmed the adapted behaviour of ...
The Thiruvananthapuram Zoo is home to 82 species from around the world. Indigenous species at the zoo include lion-tailed macaque, Nilgiri langur, Indian rhinoceros, Asiatic lion, royal Bengal tiger, white tiger [4] and leopard, [2] as well as nine Asian elephants (as of 31 March 2009). [5]