macaque

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Macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey

of southern Asia; used in medical research

Macaca radiata, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey

Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair

Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana

tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar

Macaca irus, crab-eating macaque, croo monkey

monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines

Type of:

Old World monkey, catarrhine

of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together