Stump-tailed macaque

The stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides), also called the bear macaque, is a species of macaque native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. These monkeys are primarily frugivorous but eat many kinds of vegetation, including seeds, leaves and roots, and they also hunt freshwater crabs, frogs, bird eggs and insects. A population of 230 individuals has been reported in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Most of what is known about the species comes from an introduced population on Tanaxpillo, an uninhabited island in Lake Catemaco in Veracruz, Mexico, where animals range in seminatural conditions, and from captive studies, because few long-term studies have been made in the wild. Compared with rhesus macaque females, stump-tailed females are less violent with one another and express aggression mostly through threats and chases. One study group had two mating seasons a year, in summer and in fall.