Moor macaque

The Moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, an important biodiversity hotspot. It has brown to black fur, a pale patch on the rump and bare pink skin on the rump, with oval ischial callosities, and it is about 50 to 58.5 centimetres long. Its dog-like muzzle gives it the nickname dog-ape, though it is no closer to the apes than any other Old World monkey. It eats figs, bamboo seeds, buds, sprouts, invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforest, and also lives in lowland forest, grassland, limestone karst and near human settlements. Groups usually hold 15 to 40 animals, females stay in the group where they were born while males disperse, and the species is active by day, foraging in the trees and travelling on the ground. As a fruit eater it helps spread seeds and so supports forest regeneration. The population is estimated to have fallen from about 56,000 in 1983 to under 10,000 in 1994, driven by habitat loss from a growing human population, deforestation for farmland and tourism, and it has been on the IUCN Red List of threatened species since 2015.