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A lion tailed macaque🐒

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SpeciesPrimatesCercopithecidae
Primates

🐒Lion-tailed Macaque

Macaca silenus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Makak lwi, makak wanderu, wanderu, uanderu (Macaca silenus) – gatunek ssaka naczelnego z podrodziny koczkodanów (Cercopithecinae) w obrębie rodziny koczkodanowatych (Cercopithecidae) występujący w lasach monsunowych i deszczowych południowo-zachodnich Indii.

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≈ 1/9th of your weight
Also called
Liontail Macaque, Wanderoo
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
6.57 kg
Body length
0.66 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Everything we know about the Lion-tailed Macaque

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Body mass
6.57 kg
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  • 7.88 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
0.66 m
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Brain mass
78 g
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Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Generation length
15 years
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Age at maturity
5.2 years
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Gestation
176 days
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  • 176 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.88 km²
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Population density
5.05 per km²
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Volume l
6.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Lion-tailed Macaque yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyCercopithecidae
  6. ›genusMacaca
  7. ›speciesMacaca silenus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. familyCercopithecidae
  3. subfamilyCercopithecinae
  4. genusMacaca
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. superfamilyCercopithecoidea
  14. familyCercopithecidae
  15. subfamilyCercopithecinae
  16. genusMacaca
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants40%
fruit30%
seeds and grain20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
Bartaffe (de), Macaca silenus (es), Macaque À Queue De Lion (fr), Makak lwi (pl), מקוק מזוקן (he), 사자꼬리마카크 (ko) … and 21 more languages
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