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Celebes macaque

(Macaca maura)

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Description

The moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque with brown/black body fur with a pale rump patch and pink bare skin on the rump.It is about 50-58.5 cm long,and eats figs,bamboo seeds,buds,sprouts,invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforests.It is sometimes called "dog-ape" because of its dog-like muzzle,although it is no more closely related to apes than any other Old World monkey is.It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Mammalia
Order:Primates
Family:Cercopithecidae
Genus:Macaca
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