Macaca fascicularis, commonly called the crab-eating macaque, long-tailed macaque or cynomolgus monkey, is native to Southeast Asia and thrives near human settlements and in secondary forest as a synanthropic species. It lives in matrilineal groups of ten to eighty-five individuals, with females remaining in their birth group and males leaving at puberty, and it is the only Old World monkey known to use stone tools while foraging. The most heavily traded primate species and the most widely used in scientific research, it was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2022 because of those same pressures.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to PeopleAgricultural or Structural Pest 2 Living or ExtinctDerived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill). Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Brazil, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Colombia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cuba, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Malaysia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mauritius, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Palau, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: South Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Crab-eating Macaque (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead paragraph
Macaca fascicularis, variously known by common names such as crab-eating macaque, long-tailed macaque, or cynomolgus monkey, is a macaque species native to Southeast Asia.
Conservation section
Its IUCN Red List status was uplisted in 2020 and again in 2022 from the Least Concern classification in 2008 as a result of declining population resulting from hunting and troublesome interactions with humans.
- thrives near human settlements and secondary forests
- even being pests in some cases
View the Source 3. GBIF Species API
Wikidata: Crab-eating Macaque
Wikidata Q301676, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: CercopithecidaeView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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