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Macaca nemestrina (pigtail macaque)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) is a medium-sized Old World monkey.
View Wikipedia Record: Macaca nemestrina

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Macaca nemestrina

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.28
EDGE Score: 3.05
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16.017 lbs (7.265 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  1.021 lbs (463 g)
Female Weight [4]  11.905 lbs (5.40 kg)
Male Weight [4]  19.401 lbs (8.80 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  63 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Scansorial [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 years 1 month
Male Maturity [2]  3 years
Gestation [2]  5 months 22 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  38 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  26 inches (65 cm)
Weaning [2]  10 months 24 days
Habitat Substrate [5]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm)[7]
Pedicinus eurygaster[8]
Pedicinus obtusus[8]
Treponema pallidum (Syphilis)[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Wildlife As Canon Sees It
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0