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Lion-tailed Macaque
Macaca silenus
Macaca silenus is confined to the rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, where fewer than about 4,000 remain, and it is the most arboreal and the least adaptable of the macaques - which is precisely the problem. Where rhesus and bonnet macaques thrive around temples…
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- Despite their name and lion-like mane, Lion-tailed Macaques are actually one of the smallest and most arboreal species of macaques.
- Lion-tailed macaques will not descend to the ground to cross a road, so populations separated by a single tarmac strip can be genetically isolated for decades - which is why rope and canopy bridges over Ghats highways have measurably restored gene flow. The cheek pouches let a foraging macaque carry a substantial fraction of its daily food away from a contested feeding tree. Unlike most macaques, they are quiet and hard to spot, and their loud call is a distinctive "coo" given mainly to keep the group together in dense canopy.
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