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Thailand's 'Working Monkeys' - Southern pig-tailed Macaque

Macaca nemestrina

Photo by Christiane
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

These are Southern Pig-tailed Macaque
The monkeys can quickly scamper up the trunk of a coconut palm, select the ripe cocnuts and with a twist and pull, the fruit drops to the ground.

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Southern pig-tailed macaque

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Comments (2)
melissac
OMG! That's horrible for them to be chained like that. Makes me very sad.

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Biodiversity of Thailand
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PublishedMay 21, 2011

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