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Toque Macaque
Toque Macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as rilawa (Sinhala රිළවා), (hence "rillow" in the Oxford English Dictionary).M. s. opisthomelas is recently identified as a separate subspecies, can be found entirely within south-western region of central hill bordered with Ratnapura, and Nuwara Eliya districts.
The social status is highly structured in toque macaques, where they prevail dominance hierarchies among both males and females. Females change the number of individual composition within a troop. A troop may consist very few as 8 to large as 40.
Captured at Sinharaja Forest, Sri Lanka.
Toque Macaque
Toque Macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as rilawa (Sinhala රිළවා), (hence "rillow" in the Oxford English Dictionary).M. s. opisthomelas is recently identified as a separate subspecies, can be found entirely within south-western region of central hill bordered with Ratnapura, and Nuwara Eliya districts.
The social status is highly structured in toque macaques, where they prevail dominance hierarchies among both males and females. Females change the number of individual composition within a troop. A troop may consist very few as 8 to large as 40.
Captured at Sinharaja Forest, Sri Lanka.