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  2. Lion-tailed macaque - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Is Big Pharma’s favorite lab monkey endangered? - AOL

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    Certainly, human persecution of long-tailed macaques is a real problem. News reports from Thailand document numerous gruesome busts in recent years, with Thai police intercepting traffickers as ...

  4. Why Big Pharma can’t quit the lab monkey business - AOL

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    When it comes to testing biopharmaceuticals, the fast-growing class of drugs that include monoclonal antibodies, long-tailed macaques (usually called cynomolgus monkeys or simply NHPs in lab ...

  5. Save Silent Valley - Wikipedia

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    Silent Valley is home to the largest population of lion-tailed macaque.They are among the world's rarest and most threatened primate.. After the announcement of imminent dam construction the valley became the focal point of Save Silent Valley Movement, India's fiercest environmental debate of the decade.

  6. Rare species discovered deep within Cambodian mountains - AOL

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    A pig-tailed macaque photographed during a camera trap survey in Virachey National Park. - Fauna & Flora ... Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and ...

  7. Silent Valley National Park - Wikipedia

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    Fourteen troops of lion-tailed macaque, eighty-five troops of Nilgiri langur, fifteen troops of bonnet macaque and seven troops of Hanuman langur were observed. Of these, the Nilgiri langur was randomly distributed, whereas the lion-tailed macaque troops were confined to the southern sector of the Park.

  8. Social media users abusing monkeys in sickening videos for ...

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    Some macaque species being abused are taken from the wild where they are endangered. When sickening videos of cruelty have been highlighted in media reports , social-media giants point to their ...

  9. Cullenia exarillata - Wikipedia

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    Lion-tailed macaque consume the seeds and aril of Cullenia exarillata fruit. The seeds and flowers of this species form a major part of the diet of Lion-tailed macaque in mid-elevation rainforests: 24.8% of the annual diet in Puthuthottam forest fragment in the Anamalai Hills, [19] 20.7% of annual diet in Silent Valley National Park. [20]