Pride. Crab Eating Macaque
by Jenny Rainbow
Title
Pride. Crab Eating Macaque
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Macaca fascicularis is native to south east Asia. They were introduced to the island of Mauritius in the early 1600, where they have proliferated.
Macaca fascicularis is a crab-eating macaque or long-tailed macaque (38-55 centimeters long with a tail, 40-65 centimeters in length, weighing 4-8 kilograms). The males and females are both born with black fur, which turns a grey to dark brown or yellowish-brown with lighter underparts and crown hairs which form a small crest. Crab-eating macaques are a quadrapedal and diurnal (active during the day) species, highly adapted for swimming and climbing trees with tails used for balance when leaping between trees. Crab-eating macaques have an average group size of 30 individuals.
In the early 1600, Macaca fascicularis was introduced to Mauritius when there were not predators or mammal competitors. As a result, these species populated this region at a rapid rate. They were in part introduced to Mauritius, because of the Japanese red cedar plantations found there, alleviating the macaque threat of predation on the eggs and chicks of endangered forest birds. Crab-eating macaques are highly adaptable because they are generalist feeders with a diet consisting primarily of fruit and seeds, as well as birds, insects, stems, crustaceans, spiders, leaves, invertebrates, and bird eggs. Their cheek pouches carry food while they forage and they place their hands inside burrows in search of crabs and shellfish.
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January 7th, 2013
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