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The stump-tailed macaque has long, thick, dark brown fur covering its body, but its face and its short tail, which measures between 32 and 69 mm (1.3 and 2.7 in), are hairless. [5] Infants are born white and darken as they mature. [ 5 ]
70 cm (27.5 in) long, mostly pale turquoise-blue with a large greyish head. It has a long tail and a large bill. It has a yellow, bare eye-ring and half-moon-shaped lappets bordering the mandible. [4] South America (probably extinct) Hyacinth macaw or hyacinthine macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) 100 cm (39 in) long, 120-140 cm (48-56 in ...
The Tibetan macaque is the largest species of macaque and one of the largest monkeys found in Asia. Only the proboscis monkey and the larger species of gray langur are bigger in-size among Asian monkeys. Males are the larger sex, commonly attaining a weight of 13 to 19.5 kg (29 to 43 lb) and length of 61 to 71 cm (24 to 28 in) long, with a ...
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 ...
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
A petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that argues for listing long-tailed macaques as “endangered” or “threatened” under the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act was spearheaded by ...
Endangered and critically endangered species also meet the quantitative criteria of vulnerable species, and are listed separately. See: List of endangered mammals, List of critically endangered mammals. Vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species are collectively referred to as threatened species by the IUCN.
The team extracted DNA from water samples and tested it to reveal the presence of 161 species, including the dwarf loach (an endangered freshwater fish), the Asiatic softshell turtle and the Asian ...