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A toque macaque sleeping on a tree trunk in Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A toque macaque sleeping on a tree trunk in Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Friedrich Specht. 1922 edition.
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I should’ve uploaded this long ago but when I was in Sri Lanka three years ago, I met a macaque with perfect eyeliner
Toque macaque family (Macaca sinica). Endemic to Sri Lanka. 2 Oct 2017
A toque macaque sits in water eating flowers at a pilgrimage site in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. The species, a reddish-brown old world monkey, is endemic to the country, where it is known as rilewa or rilawa. It is named for the whorl of hair on its crown, which resembles a brimless toque cap.
Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
The Toque Macaque or 'rilawa'
Photographer: Goran Anastasovski