The northern pig-tailed macaque, Macaca leonina, is a macaque found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. It was long treated as a subspecies of the southern pig-tailed macaque, but in the 21st century the old pig-tailed macaque was divided into this northern species and the Sundaland species, Macaca nemestrina. The two differ in details of the face and crown, in the shorter and thinner tail of the northern form, and in the form of the sexual swellings. Males weigh about eight kilograms or more and females under six. The northern pig-tailed macaque is mainly a fruit eater, taking hundreds of fruit species along with flowers, buds, leaves and shoots, but it turns omnivorous when fruit is scarce, eating insects, eggs, small vertebrates and human food. Groups can exceed one hundred and fifty animals and split into smaller parties when feeding. The species is listed as Vulnerable and declining, pressed by farmland expansion, infrastructure, hunting and the illegal pet trade.
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Classification
Population Trend System (Realm) ThreatsAgriculture and Aquaculture 1 ThreatsTransportation and Service Corridors 1 ThreatsBiological Resource Use 1 Relationship to People Relationship to People Relationship to PeopleAgricultural or Structural Pest 1 Living or Extinct Conservation Status Body Size Band Activity Pattern Connections
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It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)Lead, rangeQuote, Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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1. Northern pig-tailed macaque (Wikipedia)
Ecology and behaviour, diet
Northern pig-tailed macaques are frugivorous
Ecology and behaviour, diet in scarcity
the macaques are found to become more omnivorous
Threats, human impacts
the northern pig-tailed macaque is considered vulnerable and declining
Lead, range
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Threats, human impacts, agriculture
This species is affected by human impacts such as agricultural expansions, aquaculture, transportation infrastructure, hunting and logging for meat and trophies, and the illegal pet trade
Threats, human impacts, infrastructure
This species is affected by human impacts such as agricultural expansions, aquaculture, transportation infrastructure, hunting and logging for meat and trophies, and the illegal pet trade
Threats, human impacts, hunting and logging
This species is affected by human impacts such as agricultural expansions, aquaculture, transportation infrastructure, hunting and logging for meat and trophies, and the illegal pet trade
Threats, pet trade
northern pig-tailed macaques were observed as the highest kept macaque out of the range of captive macaque species in Vietnam
Threats, crop raiding
this species is found raiding crops
Threats, hunting
hunting and logging for meat and trophies
China
can also be found in tropical forests in southwestern China
In Group: Primate Species, Lead
is a vulnerable species of macaque
Child Taxon Of: Macaca, Lead, genus
The northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina)
Child Taxon Of: Cercopithecidae, Lead
The northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) is a vulnerable species of macaque in the subfamily Cercopithecidae.
View the Source2. GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): GBIF species record for Northern pig-tailed macaque
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[2].threatStatus: VULNERABLE
3. Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014): EltonTraits 1.0 mammal diet data
Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014)Row Macaca leonina: Row for the species, Activity-Diurnal column
686 Macaca leonina Cercopithecidae 10 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 10 Ref_1 ABC S A 0 0 1 Ref_1 ABC 5786.96 "Ref_2, Ref_3" 0
Row Macaca leonina: Row for the species, BodyMass-Value column
686 Macaca leonina Cercopithecidae 10 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 10 Ref_1 ABC S A 0 0 1 Ref_1 ABC 5786.96 "Ref_2, Ref_3" 0
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