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ma·caque

(mə-kăk′, -käk′)

Any of a diverse group of monkeys of the genus Macaca of Asia, Gibraltar, and northern Africa, and including the Barbary ape and the rhesus monkey.

[French, from Portuguese macaco, of Bantu origin; akin to Kongo makako, monkeys : ma-, pl. n. pref. + -kako, monkey.]

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macaque

(məˈkɑːk)

(Animals) any of various Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca, inhabiting wooded or rocky regions of Asia and Africa. Typically the tail is short or absent and cheek pouches are present

[C17: from French, from Portuguese macaco, from Fiot (a W African language) makaku, from kaku monkey]

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ma•caque

(məˈkæk, -ˈkɑk)

n.

any monkey of the genus Macaca, chiefly of Asia, characterized by cheek pouches and usu. a short tail.

[1690–1700; < French < Portuguese macaco monkey]

macaque

- Based on Bantu kaku, "monkey," and ma, denoting a plural, translating to "some monkeys."

macaque

n (monkey) → Makak m

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macaque

[məˈkɑːk] n (animal) → macaco

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Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): A new study has shown that a rhesus macaque monkey can recognize itself in the mirror and perform actions that scientists would expect from animals that have self-awareness.

Like humans, monkeys can recognize themselves in mirrors

But the 85-strong rhesus macaque monkey colony munched the lot.

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And a black macaque monkey seemed to know exactly what it was doing after borrowing a photographer's camera and smiling for a superb self-portrait in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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A quizzical macaque monkey leers at the cameraman in Indonesia; This 70-ton southern right whale dwarfs a diver off the Auckland Islands; Cameraman Steve Winter waited 10 months to get this shot of a reclusive snow leopard in the Indian mountains; A treefrog grips a cat-eyed treesnake as they lock jaws in an epic fight to the death in Belize, Central America; A snowstorm is a perfect backdrop as white-tailed eagles fight over food in Poland

Thrall of the wild

This 70-ton southern right whale dwarfs a diver off the Auckland Islands; A treefrog grips a cateyed treesnake as they lock jaws in an epic fight to the death in Belize, Central America; A snowstorm is a perfect backdrop as white-tailed eagles fight over food in Poland; Cameraman Steve Winter waited 10 months to get this shot of a reclusive snow leopard in the Indian mountains; A quizzical macaque monkey leers at the cameraman in Indonesia

Thrall of the wild

Steiper of Hunter College of the City University of New York and his colleagues first consulted the latest fossil evidence to estimate that the human evolutionary family separated from chimps' ancestors between 6 million and 7 million years ago, while the macaque monkey lineage diverged from its baboon ancestors between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

Apes, monkeys split earlier than fossils had indicated

Fresh Water was, he said, "rich with surprise" - a phrase that didn't really do justice to images such a macaque monkey swimming underwater, bombing along with a dolphin.

ShelleyV: A CROC OF GOLD

Further trials presented pairs of macaque monkey faces, one of which had just been seen.

Baby facial: infants monkey with face recognition. (Science News This Week)

Government health experts launched a nationwide inquiry three weeks ago after a young girl died in the US as a result of contracting the virus from being spat at by a macaque monkey.

SAFARI PARK SLAUGHTERS 89 KILLER VIRUS MONKEYS; Cull after girl dies

In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music, than our evolutionary relative the macaque monkey. The study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, highlights the promise of Sound Health, a joint project between the NIH and the John F.

Our Brains: Uniquely Tuned for Musical Pitch

This season, Evan also runs across jealous rhinos in Kenya, and dashes to Sri Lanka to assist a Macaque monkey in need of help.

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RESEARCHERS FROM THE Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China, have recently announced the birth of five gene-edited macaque monkey clones, the first step towards the development of customized uniformly genetic, gene edited nonhuman primate models for use in biomedical research.