#long-tailed macaques

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Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

A wild long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) helping itself to the fruits in the zebra's pen in the Singapore Zoo.

Besides trying to catch the macaque in many of its expressions, I was also trying to include one desirable aspect, and that was the catch-light in its eyes.

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Long-tailed macaques eat from the rubbish along a street in Japakeh, Aceh, Indonesia

Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images

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Long-tailed macaques in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

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Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) two juveniles sitting close together. Koram island, Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand.

Photographer: Cyril Ruoso

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Bali’s Thieving Monkeys Knowingly Target The Most Lucrative Swag

Visitors to the Uluwatu Temple in Bali may remember the pickpocketing skills of the cultural landmark’s resident macaques. Light on their feet and ever cur

Visitors to the Uluwatu Temple in Bali may remember the pickpocketing skills of the cultural landmark’s resident macaques. Light on their feet and ever curious, long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are a sacred animal in the eyes of some Buddhist and Hindu temples and it’s easy to see why when you come face to face with these charismatic animals. Also known as crab-eating macaques, they're a dab hand when it comes to cracking things open using their highly dexterous and flexible digits, which aren't enormously dissimilar to our own. Their skills however can turn on the unsuspecting tourist, and they are famous (or infamous, if it’s your stuff they stole) for stealing visitor’s belongings.

The free-ranging population of thieving long-tailed macaques recently became the subject of a new piece of research published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Researchers set out to see if the macaques were using stolen objects as a bartering tool for food rewards, and if they were discerning in what they took. Such economic behavior has never been officially recognized in a free-ranging population of non-human animals, according to the paper, but it was suspected the monkeys’ unique habitat (which they share with humans and their precious phones) may have inspired such devious behavior in these intelligent, perpetually-peckish animals.

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“Want your phone back? I’ll need more than peanuts!”

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British musician Paul Barton plays the piano for monkeys that occupy abandoned historical areas in Lopburi, Thailand Nov. 21, 2020. (REUTERS PHOTO) - Read more

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Long-tailed macaques interacting with their food enrichment objects

Long-tailed macaques at Subic Wildlife in Need, a wildlife rehab clinic, as they investigate prepared food enrichment: recyclable bottles filled with fruit, vegetables, dog food, seeds, and mealworms, or filled with frozen orange juice.