Macaque Monkey
The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and (in Gibraltar) Europe. Macaques are principally frugivorous (preferring fruit), although their diet also includes seeds, leaves, flowers, and tree bark.
Some species such as the long-tailed macaque (M. fascicularis; also called the crab-eating macaque) will supplement their diets with small amounts of meat from shellfish, insects, and small mammals.
Twenty-three macaque species are currently recognized. Macaques are robust primates whose arms and legs are about the same in length.
The fur of these animals is typically varying shades of brown or black and their muzzles are rounded in profile with nostrils on the upper surface. The tail varies among each species, which can be long, moderate, short or totally absent.
Although several species lack tails, and their common names refer to them as apes, these are true monkeys, with no greater relationship to the true apes than any other Old World monkeys. Instead, this comes from an earlier definition of 'ape' that included primates generally
This image was taken at the Bukit Merhah Orang Utan Island, near Georgetown in Malaysia in the state of Perak in Malaysia.
The aim of the foundation is to raise awareness of the plight of Malaysia's Orang Utans and to rehabilitate those injured and orphaned, with the goal of returning them to the wild
As well as the Orang Utans, the island is also home to Macaque Monkeys too
Macaque Monkey
The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and (in Gibraltar) Europe. Macaques are principally frugivorous (preferring fruit), although their diet also includes seeds, leaves, flowers, and tree bark.
Some species such as the long-tailed macaque (M. fascicularis; also called the crab-eating macaque) will supplement their diets with small amounts of meat from shellfish, insects, and small mammals.
Twenty-three macaque species are currently recognized. Macaques are robust primates whose arms and legs are about the same in length.
The fur of these animals is typically varying shades of brown or black and their muzzles are rounded in profile with nostrils on the upper surface. The tail varies among each species, which can be long, moderate, short or totally absent.
Although several species lack tails, and their common names refer to them as apes, these are true monkeys, with no greater relationship to the true apes than any other Old World monkeys. Instead, this comes from an earlier definition of 'ape' that included primates generally
This image was taken at the Bukit Merhah Orang Utan Island, near Georgetown in Malaysia in the state of Perak in Malaysia.
The aim of the foundation is to raise awareness of the plight of Malaysia's Orang Utans and to rehabilitate those injured and orphaned, with the goal of returning them to the wild
As well as the Orang Utans, the island is also home to Macaque Monkeys too