noun
definition
Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially genus Macaca.
Examples of macaques in a Sentence
Like most other monkeys, macaques go about in large troops, each headed by an old male.
The applicants had also explained that a further study involving macaques would not have led to any reduction in the numbers of animals used.
A group of wild Buton macaques were compared to a group of captive Sulawesi crested macaques housed at Paignton zoo.
Crab-eating macaques from Asia are by far the most heavily traded monkeys, followed by rhesus and squirrel monkeys.
One SHIV used in monkeys and mutated into a pathogen so powerful that it kills rhesus macaques in weeks [9] .
Some crab eating macaques were brought in from Shamrock, which I was later able to demonstrate against and see closed.
He will be greatly missed and we will be dedicating the new house for the stump-tailed macaques in his memory.
The study has developed non-invasive tools to quantify HPA activity in lion-tailed macaques.
The provision of a small swimming pool for captive macaques is an effective contribution to improving their welfare.
Suggest one reason why subadult female macaques might handle the infants more than adult or juvenile female macaques.
In 2000, more than 400 rhesus macaques - found to be carrying herpes B - were required to be shot in UK zoos.
It was at this point that the two baby macaques began to show their characters.
Displaying great variability in the length of the tail, which is reduced to a mere tubercle in the Barbary ape, alone representing the subgenus Inuus, macaques are heavily-built monkeys, with longer muzzles than their compatriots the langurs (see PRIMATES), and large naked callosities on the buttocks.
The culling of hundreds of Rhesus Macaques in a number of safari parks across Britain in 1999 highlighted the zoonoses issue.