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: any of a genus (Macaca) of chiefly Asian monkeys typically having a sturdy build and including some short-tailed or tailless forms
especially
: rhesus monkey
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The species' relative the Rhesus macaque is already established in Florida and carries a deadly strain of herpes that the crab-eating macaque could become carriers for.
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Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
Between December 2017 and September 2022, Kry was accused of negotiating with the two co-conspirators over the pricing of wild macaques to be captured and delivered to monkey breeding facilities in Cambodia.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
During Frans’s early years in academia, a job studying macaques led him to develop a specialty in apes.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
The macaques have adapted very well to living around the sea and venture into the water for various reasons including transportation, scavenging, cooling down and even playing.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Sarah Kite, a co-founder of Action for Primates, has researched the macaque trade for decades and contributed to a recent assessment that classified the species as endangered.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
This photo offers a rare glimpse of the swimming movement of a male macaque.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
For years, scientists didn’t realize that macaques, unlike humans, were not orally susceptible to the virus, a misapprehension that for a long time threw off their understanding of the disease’s pathway and confounded efforts.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
Rhesus macaques often live to about 25 years in captivity, with some living to 40.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
Between December 2017 and September 2022, Kry was accused of negotiating with the two co-conspirators over the pricing of wild macaques to be captured and delivered to monkey breeding facilities in Cambodia.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
During Frans’s early years in academia, a job studying macaques led him to develop a specialty in apes.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
The macaques have adapted very well to living around the sea and venture into the water for various reasons including transportation, scavenging, cooling down and even playing.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Sarah Kite, a co-founder of Action for Primates, has researched the macaque trade for decades and contributed to a recent assessment that classified the species as endangered.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
This photo offers a rare glimpse of the swimming movement of a male macaque.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
For years, scientists didn’t realize that macaques, unlike humans, were not orally susceptible to the virus, a misapprehension that for a long time threw off their understanding of the disease’s pathway and confounded efforts.
—Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
Rhesus macaques often live to about 25 years in captivity, with some living to 40.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
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Copy CitationKids Definition
: any of various monkeys mostly from Asia that includes some with either short or no tails
especially
: rhesus monkey
Etymology
French, from Portuguese macaco, from makaku, plural of kaku, name for an African monkey in one or more Bantu languages of Gabon and Congo
Medical Definition
: any of numerous short-tailed Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca and related genera chiefly of southern Asia
especially
: rhesus monkey
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