macaque
noun
, -ˈkäk
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This one focused on rhesus macaques that live in an outdoor enclosure at the California National Primate Research Center. — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, "The Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke May Last a Lifetime," 27 June 2019 No other non-human primate is more northern-living, nor lives in a colder climate than the Japanese macaque. — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Adorable baby snow monkey is born at Milwaukee zoo; first healthy birth in 26 years," 20 June 2019 But these rhesus macaques have paid their dues and have settled into retirement. — Carrie Antlfinger, Fox News, "More research monkeys retire when studies finish," 13 June 2019 However, other research, published in April 2018 in the Journal of Virology, was not able to show transmission to macaques. — Korin Miller, SELF, "What You Need to Know About So-Called 'Zombie' Deer Disease," 20 Feb. 2019 Moreover, the macaques spontaneously generalized this opt-out behavior from tasks involving perception to those involving memory. — Thomas Nagel, The New York Review of Books, "Known Unknowns," 18 Apr. 2019 Grady is an 11-month-old rhesus macaque who lives at the Oregon National Primate Research Center just west of Portland. — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, "New Hope for Fertility of Young Cancer Patients Using Frozen Testicular Tissue," 21 Mar. 2019 The research involving macaque monkeys found that the monkeys developed CWD after eating infected meat from deer and elk, and some of the meat came from infected deer that had CWD but didn’t show symptoms yet. — Korin Miller, SELF, "What You Need to Know About So-Called 'Zombie' Deer Disease," 20 Feb. 2019 The monkey is the 10th primate to die accidentally at the UW since 2009, when a male macaque starved to death. — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, "Research monkey strangles to death at new UW animal lab," 20 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'macaque.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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