Pgmacaque
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This mummy macaque was angry as there was a wildlife warden very close to her babies
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What a cute little baby rhesus macaque! Taken with Nikon D50
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Keeping clean and neat is a two-monkey job!
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This guy was busy looking around when he noticed me taking his picture. That moment of eye contact really gets you!
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This is a naughty macaque monkey whom we encountered at the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love this pic and it has been greatly enhanced by Julie Langford’s skillfull application of a black background. Thanks Jul!
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This is a photo of a macaque which I took at a temple near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love these cheeky monkeys. And he is cheeky in more ways than one, as you can see! I asked Julie Langford to add a black background and she has come up trumps yet again. So thanks Jul for enhancing my work!
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This picture is included in the Primate calender The Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the Snow Monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species native to Japan. / The Japanese Macaque is diurnal and spends most of its time in forests. Individuals have brown-gray fur, a red face, hands and bottom, and a short tail. It lives in a variety of forest-types, including subtropical to subalpine, deciduous, broadleaf and evergreen forests, below 1500 m. It feeds on seeds, roots, buds, fruit, invertebrates, berries, leaves, birds eggs, fungi, bark and cereals. It has a body length ranging from 79 to 95 cm, with a tail length of approximately 10 cm. Males weigh from 10 to 14 kg, females, around 5.5 kg. / The Japanese Macaque is the most northerly-living non-human primate, living in mountainous areas of Honshū, Japan. It survives winter temperatures below -15 °C (5° F), and is perhaps most famous for the amount of time it spends relaxing in naturally heated volcanic hot springs. / The Japanese Macaque lives in troops 20-100 individuals in size usually subdivided into matrilineal groups consisting of many females and several males. On average, females outnumber males by 3 to 1. The females have a rigid hierarchy with infants inheriting their mother’s rank. The males tend to be transient within the troop. / Females will copulate with an average of ten males during the mating season, though only about one third of the mountings will lead to ejaculation. Though pregnancies only occur during the mating season, heterosexual relations go on year-round. After a gestation period of 173 days, females bear only one baby, which weighs about 500 g at birth. This macaque has an average lifespan of 30 years. / Same-sex relations are frequent, rates however vary between troops. Females will form consortships characterized by affectionate, social and sexual activities. In some troops up to one quarter of the females will form such bonds, which will vary in duration from a few days to a few weeks. Often, strong and lasting friendships will result from such pairings. Males also have same-sex relations, typically with multiple partners of the same age. Affectionate and playful activities are associated with such relations. / The Japanese Macaque is very smart. It is the only animal other than humans and raccoons that is known to wash its food before eating it. Researchers studying this species left sweet potatoes out on the beach for them to feed on, then witnessed one female taking the food down to the sea to wash the sand off it. After a while, others started to copy her behavior. This trait was then passed on from generation to generation, until eventually, all except the very oldest members of the troop were washing their food in the sea. / Also in recent studies, it has been found that the Japanese Macaque can develop different accents, like humans. It was found that macaques in areas separated by only a couple hundred miles can have very different pitches in their calls, their form of communication. The Japanese Macaque has been involved in many studies concerning neuroscience and also is used in drug testing. / It is often the subject of Buddhist myths, and is thought to be the inspiration behind the saying “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” / The Japanese Macaque is classified as Data Deficient by the 2000 IUCN Red List. Data Deficient (DD) is a category applied by the IUCN to a species when the available information is not sufficient for a proper assessment of conservation status to be made. This does not necessarily indicate that the species has not been extensively studied; but it does indicate that little or no information is available on the abundance and distribution of the species. The IUCN recommends that care be taken to avoid classing species as Data Deficient when the absence of records may actually indicate dangerously low abundance: “If the range of a taxon is suspected to be relatively circumscribed, if a considerable period of time has elapsed since the last record of the taxon, threatened status may well be justified” / Source: Wikipedia / Picture taken at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam.
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Two baby Macaques in Kyoto, Japan.
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Mum has gone a bit tooooooo far with her preening and cleaning of little baby face. Dad is beside her but is letting her get on with it. Baby has just about had enough :o)
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Nikon D80 The first time 3 monkeys went for the swing at the same time. I had read about Takasakiyama Monkey Park and thought it would be just like any other zoo. There would be the monkeys behind a big, big fence or a glass fronted enclosure. / Boy, was I proved WRONG. These lucky animals have complete freedom and get fed twice a day. I thought photographing them would be impossible to get / a good focus lock – let alone a composed shot like this one. It is my best shot and the photo that I am most of. / Its the photograph that really made me think more about getting emotional about photography – by capturing a shot like this.
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VIEW LARGER Thank you Primate Art for taking such an interest and such a love of my work in Japan on these lovely animals. I was very fortunate to have come across this place and even more fortunate to try and work out how to get them from where I was staying in the area. The expressions are of course, one of main reasons for photographing these animals. There is the ‘cute factor’ but there is also the ‘emotional factor’. Its the task of the photographer to grab the ‘thoughtful expression’ rather than a ‘sad’ one. Sometimes its the comical one. Deep In Thought was a photographic triumph of years of ‘average amateur photography’. Its the shot of a lifetime of sometimes near misses and out of focus and clipped from frame shots. Its a just reward :o) to be shared with other photographers who can then think – I want a shot like that and I aspire to get it. / Not as a matter of saying I am great, rather that ‘enthusiasm starts the race, / but perserverance ENDS IT. Good luck to all RB, enjoy photography and get the / rewards of your time and effort. Mine with a Nikon D80.
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It just ain’t gonna fill you up – boy !
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This is a barbary macaque. We met her at Apenheul Primate Park in Holland. She was free to roam next to us so I sat near her on the floor. Taken with Nikon D50. The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a macaque with only a stub of a tail. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small, possibly introduced, population in Gibraltar, the Barbary Macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species. Besides humans, they are the only primates that live freely in Europe. Although the species is commonly referred to as the “Barbary Ape”, the Barbary Macaque is a true monkey, not an ape.
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This picture is included in the Primate calender The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a macaque with only a stub of a tail. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small, possibly introduced, population in Gibraltar, the Barbary Macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species. Besides humans, they are the only primates that live freely in Europe. Although the species is commonly referred to as the “Barbary Ape”, the Barbary Macaque is a true monkey, not an ape. This monkey is yellowish-brown to grey with lighter undersides, growing to a maximum size of 75 cm (30 in) and 13 kg (29 lb). Its face is a dark pink and its tail is vestigial. The front limbs of this monkey are longer than its hind limbs. Females are somewhat smaller than males. Dwelling in forests of cedar, pine and oak, the Barbary Macaque may frequent elevations of 2,100 m (6,900 ft) or more. It is a diurnal animal, dividing its time more or less equally between arboreal and terrestrial territory. Mostly herbivorous, this monkey feeds on leaves, roots, and fruit, but will also eat insects. By day, the Barbary Macaque patrols a territory which may span several square kilometers; it peacefully co-exists with other primate species, sharing watering holes without incident. The Barbary Macaque moves about energetically on all fours, occasionally rising erect on its hind limbs to survey for threats. The Barbary Macaque is a gregarious monkey, forming mixed groups of several females and males; the troop of 10 to 30 individuals is matriarchal, with its hierarchy determined by lineage to the lead female. Unlike other macaques, the males participate in rearing the young; much time is spent playing and grooming with them. In this way, a strong social bond is formed between a male and his offspring, both the male’s own and those of others in the troop. This may be a result of selectiveness on the part of the females, who seem to prefer highly parental males. The mating season runs from November through March. After a gestation period of 147 to 192 days, typically one baby per female is born; twins are a rarity. The monkeys reach maturity at 3 to 4 years of age, and may live for 20 years or more. The habitat of the Barbary Macaque is under threat from increased logging activity; they are listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List. Local farmers view the monkeys as pests, and engage in extermination of the species. Once common throughout northern Africa and southern Europe, there are estimated to be just 12,000 to 21,000 Barbary Macaques left Many of the mistaken ideas about human anatomy contained in the writings of Galen are apparently due to his use of these animals, the anthropoid available to him, in dissections. Strong cultural taboos of his time prevented his performing any actual dissections of human cadavers, even in his role as physician and teacher of physicians. The last wild population in Europe is that of Gibraltar, which unlike that of North Africa is thriving. At present there are some 230 animals in five troops occupying the area of the Upper Rock, though occasional forays into the town may result in damages to personal property. (Source: Wikipedia) Picture taken in Animal Park Europe in Nuenen, The Netherlands Canon EOS 350D / Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM / Exposure time 1/320s / Aperture value f/5.6 / ISO 200 / Focal length 125 mm
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This picture is included in the Primate calender The Lion-tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus) is an Old World monkey that lives only in the Western Ghats of South India. / (For Dutch people, we call them Wanderoes). The hair of the Lion-tailed Macaque is dark-brown or black. Its outstanding characteristic is the silver-white mane which surrounds the head from the cheeks down to its chin, which gives this monkey its German name of “Beard Ape”. The hairless face is black colored. With a head-to-tail length of 45 to 60 cm and a weight of 3 to 10 kg, it ranks among the smaller macaques. The tail is medium length with a length of approximately 25 cm and is a black tuft at the end, similar to a lion’s tail. The males tail-tuft is more developed than that of the females. Gestation is approximately six months. The young are nursed for one year. Sexual maturity is reached at four years for females, six years for males. The life expectancy in the wild is approximately 20 years, while in captivity up to 30 years. The Lion-tailed Macaque is a diurnal rain forest dweller. It is a good climber and spends a majority of its life in the upper canopy of tropical moist evergreen forests. Unlike other macaques, it avoids humans. In group behavior, it is much like other macaques: it lives in hierarchical groups of usually ten to twenty animals, which consist of few males and many females. It is a territorial animal, defending its area first with loud cries towards the invading troops. If this proves fruitless, it brawls aggressively. Lion-tailed macaque behaviour is characterized by typical patterns such as arboreal living, selectively feeding on a large variety of fruit trees, large inter-individual spaces while foraging, and time budgets with high proportion of time devoted to exploration and feeding. The Lion-tailed Macaque primarily eat indigenous fruits, leaves, buds, insects and small vertebrates in virgin forest but can adapt to rapid environmental change in areas of massive selective logging through behavioural modifications and broadening of food choices to include fruits, seeds, shoots, pith, flower, cone, mesocarp, and other parts of many non-indigenous and pioneer plants. A recent assessment for IUCN reports 3000-3500 of these animals live scattered over several areas in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The Lion-tailed Macaque ranks among the rarest and most threatened primates. Their range has become increasingly isolated and fragmented by the spread of agriculture and tea, coffee, teak and cinchona, construction of water reservoirs for irrigation and power generation, and human settlements to support such activities. They don’t live, feed or travel through plantations. Destruction of their habitat and the fact that they avoid human proximity, has led to the drastic decrease of their population. During 1977 to 1980, public concern about the endangered lion-tailed macaque became the focal point of Save Silent Valley, India’s fiercest environmental debate of the decade. During 1993 to 1996, fourteen troops of lion-tailed macaque were observed in Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, one of the most undisturbed viable habitats left for the lion-tailed macaque. A self-sustainable single population of 32 groups of lion-tailed macaques occurred in Sirsi-Honnavara, Karnataka, the northernmost population of the species. A local census concluded in 2007, conducted in the Theni District of Tamil Nadu, put their numbers at around 250, which was considered encouraging, because till then, there had not been any records of Lion-tailed Macaques in that specific area. Many zoos take part in breeding programs which help to secure the survival of this species. 368 of these Macaque are reported to live in zoos. (Source: Wikipedia) Picture taken in Apenheul in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM / Exposure time 1/400s / Aperture value f/5 / ISO 200 / Focal length 205 mm
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