Heck's macaque

Heck's macaque, Macaca hecki, is a macaque that lives on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and is an Old World monkey that is active by day. Groups are small, usually ten to fifteen animals, and each keeps a home range of about one hundred hectares. Males leave the group they were born in when they reach sexual maturity and join other groups, which helps to avoid inbreeding. Although the species can climb trees, it spends most of its time on the ground, searching for flowers, tubers, sprouts, insects and molluscs, and now and then a small vertebrate. The species is assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, the global conservation status carried in the GBIF record for the species.