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SpeciesPrimatesCercopithecidae
Primates

🐒Tibetan macaque

Macaca thibetana (A.Milne-Edwards, 1870)

The Tibetan macaque, also known as Père David's Macaque, the Chinese stump-tailed macaque or Milne-Edwards' macaque, is a macaque species found from eastern Tibet east to Guangdong and north to Shaanxi in China. It has also been reported in northeastern India. This species lives in subtropical forests at elevations from 800 to 2,500 m above sea level.

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Also called
Milne-edwards’ Macaque, Milne-Edwards’s Macaque, Père David's Macaque, Père David’s Stump-tailed Macaque, Short-tailed Tibetan Macaque, Tibetan Stump-tailed Macaque
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
10 kg
Body length
0.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Tibetan macaque

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
10 kg
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  • 10 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.6 m
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Maximum lifespan
30 years
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  • 27 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
8.99 years
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Age at maturity
4.9 years
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Gestation
175 days
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  • 170 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Volume l
10 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 Tibetan 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 thibetana
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
Tibetmakak (de), Macaca thibetana (es), Macaque du Tibet (fr), 藏酋猴 (zh), Makak tybetański (pl), 티베트마카크 (ko) … and 19 more languages
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