THE LION TAILED MACAQUE

Tail length: Male 25.4-38.6cm / Female 25.4-32cm

Feet and hands:

But, when they travel they

are usually in groups with up to around 20 of different families, sometimes with a few male leaders.

LOCOMOTION

Adaptation:

Since the monkeys either climb or walk, their adaptation is when using their arms and legs for either climbing or walking depending on where they are.

Structure:

They also use their legs for climbing because they live in forest areas.

Their legs and arms are very close in length, which allows them to walk on all four legs, as well as on two.

Function:

Quadrupedalism and bipedalism

Body length: Male 51-61cm / Female 46cm

THE LION

TAILED

MACAQUE

Function: Used for balance and communication.

Adaptation: Helps them when jumping, walking and running.

By: Margi Antonio

Function:

grabbing onto things

Adaptation:

they have good grip to climb because

their habitat is in the forest.

The FACE

Fur:

Eyes

Function: protects skin

Adaptation: they live in tropical areas therefore the fur is not thick and it keeps them cool.

social behavior

They are grouped by a

mother and her children.

Snout like nose

Function: easier to eat because their mouths open bigger

Adaptation: depending on what they are eating

After mating is done the mother and father do not stay together.

They are diurnal.

habitat

sources (pictures) -

social

hierarchy

They are arboreal and terrestrial

Female dominance.

They live in evergreen broad leaf forests.

geological range-

The Western Ghats, India

This is where they originated, and where the

ones living in the wild are.

REPRODUCTION:

The lion-tailed macaque gives birth to a single offspring.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Lion-tailed_macaque_by_N_A_Nazeer.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8719801/Pictures-of-the-day-24-August-2011.html?image=9

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Hinglajgarh_Forest.jpg

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Lion-tailed_macaque_with_baby.jpg

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Diet

Lifestyle

zoo- fruits, flowers, nuts, leaves and insects

wild- fruits, seeds, buds, leaves, insects,

and small birds and mammals

Lifespan:

The Lion tailed Macaque habitat in the Singapore zoo.

Movement graph:

In zoos, lion-tailed macaques have lived for more than 30 years. Their longevity in the wild is likely much shorter.

Second location

First location

Stayed and sat until 15 minutes

Stayed and sat for 7 minutes

14 minutes - sitting

1 minute - walking

2 minutes - self grooming (while sitting)

2 minutes - scratching (while sitting)

15 minutes all together.

When I visited the zoo, the Macaque I watched was named Jibby.

Jibby was very calm. He only stayed in two spots for 15 minutes.

He did some other things, like scratching, grooming himself, and

shaking off dirt but mostly, he sat there. Eventually he got up

and walked further on the branch, but all he did once he got

there was sit. A few other monkeys were playing, but the rest

were just like Jibby. I believe the mokeys that were playing are

children, and the rest are adults, like how with humans, kids are

more likely to play around then adults. I began to conclude that

these monkeys are calm, but in a way, quite interesting because we, as humans, are like them in many ways.

Environmental threats

Classified as Endangered (EN - B1+2c, C2a) on the IUCN Red List 2002

THANK YOU.

Lion-tailed macaques are very rare because of destruction of their homes and deforestation used for timber agriculture and development. For this reason only 1% of their original habitat remains today. This species lives in isolated pockets of remaining forest, which can lead to inbreeding. Additional threats come from hunting; sometimes they are persecuted as crop pests and are often mistaken for Nilgiri langurs, another monkey, whose meat is falsely believed to have medicinal properties