Talk:Crab-eating macaque

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FYI, there sure ain't much on this fella out there in internet land. All I can find is lots of neuroscience experiments, and this: [1].

I don't know why you found it difficult to find external sources. A google search reveals this, and this, both of which have a lot of good info. Arjuna (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Common Name

Someone recently made an article-wide change of the common name of M. fascicularis from "Crab-eating Macaque" to "Long-tailed Macaque". Both names are equally good; however, until the name of the article changes from "crab" to "long-tailed", we should keep the naming consistent. Arjuna 22:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I recently spoke with Webster-Merriam about the use of common names for M. fascicularis. Crab-eating macaque is the least commonly used of it names. Also, in all of the subspecies listed in the article, they are all named a form of long-tailed macaque, except the M. fascicularis fascularis which is label crab-eating. Why this inconsistency. I suggest using long-tailed macaque through the article and as the main heading, if that can be changed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mgumert (talk • contribs) .

It has been recently re-stated that long-tailed macaques are documented as a serious source of extinction pressure on other animals in non-native ranges. Please cite your references. I have read reports where studies have shown these macaques are not as great of an extinction pest as common sentiment usually suggests (see Sussman and Tattersall, 1986 for Mauritius). For example, before the wiki page said the l.t. macaque was responsible for the extinction of the dodo bird. An entirely erroneous unbacked statement. Humans destroyed the dodo bird, not macaques, and humans are destroying most of the other species people are now targeting l.t. macaques as a cause of. Another example, is the birds of paradise in Irian Jaya. It is now claimed by some conservationists that macaques are the major pressure to their extinction, although thousands of people in Indonesia have stuffed birds of paradise in their homes, trade them as pets, and are destroying habitat. Macaques may eat some of their eggs. What is the greater extinction threat, humans or macaques? It is possilby a compounded effect where humans have fragmented the endangered species to such an extent that now macaques have more of an impact. But humans brought the macaques there as pets and humans have compounded the problem with their own destructive practices. There are also reports that the Irian Jaya introduced macaques are anywhere between 70-70,000 in population number. A rather imprecise number, indicating a great lack of knowledge of what is really going on in some (and possibly many) of the areas where macaques have been introduced. We need scientific data before anyone can make these general claims about all non-native macaques. Each situation will more than likely be different. Would macaques have the impact they have if it weren't for the great habitat loss caused by people. We need to study this. Lots of negative things have been stated about this animal across fields, with little scientific data to back it. I am fine with that as long as the claims are cited and scientifically validated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mgumert (talk • contribs) .

Please sign your talk edits with 4 tildes (~~~~). "Crab-eating Macaque" is the common named preferred by Mammal Species of the World, 3rd ed., which claims to be an extention of previous work assigning an official common name to all mammals. None of the subspecies names are given in MSW3. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Mgumert, I'm sorry you seem to be rather mis-informed about the situation. There is now ample scientific documentation on the negative biodiversity impact of M. fascicularis where it is an introduced alien species, notably in Mauritius, Anggaur, and Papua. A simple Google search of "invasive macaques" yields several results linking to important papers; apparently you have not carried out this most mundane task, so you may wish to start with: http://www.issg.org/database/species/impact_info.asp?si=139&fr=1&sts= Arjuna 22:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I have no problem with changing the title of the article to Long-tailed macaques. However, your point about which subspecies are CE versus LT is dubious, as Mirriam Webster is hardly an authoritative source on primate taxonomy. Latin names are definitive, common names are whatever people invent and use. Therefore, LT and CE macaques are common names that apply equally to any particular subspecies of M. fascicularis -- as complicated a primate taxon as they come -- and indeed is usually considered a "super-species". Arjuna 22:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I wrote my last comment before I read UtherSRG's message. If CE Macaque is what is used in the authoritative book he cites, then while LT is certainly not incorrect, I agree that the current use of CE macaque is better and the article title should remain unchanged. Arjuna 22:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

My comment on subspecies was about an inconsistency written in the wikipedia article. Why is it listed here that the main subspecies is a crab eating macaque and the rest long-tailed. All subspecies can be named long-tailed or crab-eating, why the inconsistency here. I did not cite Merriam Webster as a source of naming subspecies. I refered to Merriam Webster simply as a source of how frequently the common names are used throughout literature. Crab-eating macaque is the least commonly used common name. Please read my comments more carefully. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mgumert (talk • contribs) .

Mammal Species of the World, 3rd ed. is not the end all be all of animal naming and furthermore it is not primary literature. I prefer to select my naming from the experts that study these animals in the wild, not large reviews of animals such as the work you refer to. A large amount of the primary literature written on research in the wild or on the natural history of this species uses the name long-tailed macaque. A very extensive review is by Fooden, 1995 in Fieldana:81 and this work does an good review on the sub-species. He used long-tailed macaque as the name for these animals. This is one example of many, but his work here is one of the best pieces of natural history work on this animal. Many of the people that have contributed to a large part of our understanding of these animals in the wild use the name long-tailed macaque. These include Bruce Wheatley, Antje Engelhardt, Augustin Fuentes, Fillipo Aureli, de Ruiter, Palombit, van Noordwijk, van Schaik, to name just a handful. My interest in standardizing the common name is simply to begin better standardizing how we refer to this animal and to do this why don't we select the common name from the several used that is the more accurate description of the organism. Long-tailed macaque is a better general referant, than crab-eater, which more refers to the cultural developments of the few populations that do eat crabs. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mgumert (talk • contribs) .

MSW3 is the book we are using to update many of the mammal articles, and provides a single conssitent source of information. It is much preferred to use one set of consistent data, and explain the discrepancies from there, than it is to accumulate the various works and try to make something consistent and explain why it isn't. Plus, the "make something work" borders on original research, something to be avoided on Wikipedia. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I can see the value of a standardized source like MSW3 in guiding the layout of information here, but I do think one benefit here at wikipedia is that we can pull from numerous sources to reach an educated decision about what is included in this wiki article. I don't think pointing out that long-tailed macaque is a more commonly used term than crab-eating throughout the literature (esp among field work) or making a case that it is a better description of the organism as a whole (when comparing these two terms) is anything close to original research. It is an encyplodedic issue, trying our best to document what has been conveyed in the literature. My concern with basing what we state here on one other encyplodic sourse is that now this becomes a third level source of information, and why add it if you just repeat what is in MSW3, someone could just go to that source. We can do better. I think we already have, as the article is more informative now than before we started discussion. Mgumert 15:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

What are the credentials of Mammal Species of the World? Other than that they've had to change it twice since they first wrote it?  ;) If you run a Yahoo search, you'll find that Cynomolgus comes up twice as much as Long-Tailed, which comes up about 3 times as much as Crab-Eating (the actual Genus species name is about half way between Long-Tailed and Cynomolgus). In the scientific research world, everyone calls them Cynomolgus monkeys and they publish more. I think that before Wikipedia considers using an encyclopedic source for standardization of information they should ask themselves, "How many people will use an encyclopedia that just sites another encyclopedias?" I have to agree with Mgumert, you can't just say, "this is the source we're using, so there!" This is supposed to be a community fed source of information, not a small clique of "experts" transcribing from another work. Paul123 12:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.3.58 (talk)

The credentials of MSW3 are that it is the de facto standard used by others. It is written by scientists who study and determine the classification of mammal species. the credential for using it for common names is that it is a follow on to a previous work on mammalian common names, and it is the next step in the proceess of having an Official Common Name list, much as the ornithologists have. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:31, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I second UtherSRG's point. Common names are inherently always a compromise. Arjuna (talk) 00:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I changed the name of the language/dialect for macaque from "Fiot" to "Ibinda". The cited external reference does not mention Fiot, and the wiki page linked to states that Fiot is considered derogatory while the preferred term is Ibinda. Jmckaskle (talk) 14:47, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Threats

Arjuna, thank you for your concern of my mis-information. I have read alot on the subject but I admit I can always learn more. I ran your search and opened the first hit. http:// www.indopacific.org/macaca.asp. Here they discuss a report on New Guinea. They have identified that there are 6 troops of macaaques in New Guinea. That is a small population. Some conservationists have tried to argue to me that there are 70,000 macaques on the island, and I just very much dislike such overemphasis and alarm on these issues and simply seek to stop those kind of statements from happening. It is why I want fair explanations in places like this wikipedia blog. Many people overescalate the problem and it is largely because people look at reports like this and don't pass on the information the data really shows. Rather they just blankedly state fascicularis is a serious extinction threat in non-native habitats. If there are only six troops on new guinea, it is not a serious extinction threat. Additionally, the problem is compounded by the fact humans have isolated these forest areas, and this is probably what really makes the macaque become damaging. Furthermore, they have no baseline data before the macaques were there, which is a confound in their results. Aside from that, the report says the likelihood of them getting out of their isolated forest "islands" is small, although over the long-term they maybe could start to colonize other areas. Therefore, this particular case is not a big threat. Keep the problem contained, remove the monkeys, the threat of this problem is removed Mgumert 17:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Mgmert, if people tried to convince you there were that many macaques on the island then they were mis-informed and would have benefited from reading the IPCA report to establish the facts. The reality of the threat from alien invasive M. fascicularis to native fauna is serious enough to not require exaggeration. I think if you read the report carefully yourself, however, the picture that is presented is not nearly as optimistic as you seem to think. First of all, your use of the term "extinction threat" is not used in the scientific community as it is a bit melodramatic and imprecise; "biodiversity threat" is more commonly used and gets the point across. Extinction is not a term usually bandied about until a particular species is truly nearing such a threshold, by which time it is often too late. So using the term "extinction threat" is a strawman argument. No, the IPCA report does not say that because that term is not a useful tool in understanding the role of the species in New Guinea. If you have read the report in its entirety, the report makes a very clear and scientifically sound documentation of the threat to native species by macaques. The facilitation of this threat by human agency (creating new potential habitat by degrading adjacent forest areas) is important, but you are missing the point: those forests and the species within them have the capacity to recover as long as no additional pressures (viz. macaques) are introduced, and secondary forest creates a new vector for further macaque colonization of new areas. This is precisely why the New Guinea macaques ARE a very serious biodiversity threat. As to whether the lack of baseline (pre-macaque arrival) data compromises results, the answer is no. Obviously it would be ideal in any situation to have a strong baseline, but for most areas of the world outside of Europe and the U.S. it does usually not exist --this is particularly so in New Guinea. Fortunately, then, it is not scientifically required since a hypothesis can be tested with alternative methods. The report authors carried out "double-blind" survey tests of four forest habitat plots, with and without macaques, in both secondary and primary (a proxy for pre-macaque baseline data) forests. Their results were robust (i.e. statistically significant) that macaques negataively impact the native fauna. Case closed. Hope this helps. Arjuna 19:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Arjuna, a biodiversity threat means loss of biodiversity and is thus an extinction threat in either a local or broad sense. The use of terms here to convey our points is trivial, other than for the melodramatic tone you mention. Which is exactly my point against your position. You accuse my terminology as being overemphasized by using extinction threat. Well, saying 6 macaque groups is a very serious biodiversity threat is overemphasizing their true impact on New Guinea. This is a quote from the IPCA report "Populations of introduced Macaca fascicularis in Papua are currently limited to a relatively small area in the immediate Jayapura/Kotaraja area in far the northwestern part of the province. There are approximately 60 individual macaques, in six different troops, all more or less in the same general vicinity south of Jayapura city" It is from the impact of this report that the one conservationist I mentioned stated there are 70,000 macaques and that macaques are taking over papua. So this paper has had a negative impact on others in important conservation roles .I agree he should have read the report more thoroughly, but that fact is so many won't be reading it, they don't have time, and they take the basic message and exxagerate it greatly as they get it from secondary sources. Therefore, my point is people in your role, who mediate the information that comes from primary to layment sources, needs to be aware of this affect when you state as a major point on a small info page, that they are a "very serious" biodiversity threat. You are loading the statement from your perspective. You need to say, some groups have provided evidence, or it is possible they are a threat. In the report they fairly lay out alternative arguments, yet you choose not to investigate those sides more. All scientific data is based in the principle of falsifiability and thus no sceintific work proves anything in the philosophical sense. Anyway and more important, one macaque group lives in a range of appox 0.3-1.9km2. If there are six groups, this covers at most 12 km2. How can that be a major threat currently to papua new guinea biodiversity in general. How, just think about, even if they could destroy every animal in their home range they have only altered this small area. Yes, it is a problem, I am not aguing that they have no influence on biodiversity loss and I also think they should be removed in non-native ranges where they do lower diversity. But, I am speaking about the level to witch we claim they are changing biodiversity in general. The Papua macaque problem is comparative to a spill. I am confident with the attention to this issue, we will clean up the spill, but we don't need to overemphasize the overall threat to achieve this end. When a macaque becomes a brown-tree snake and it is truly documented as the primary cause of the extinction of any animal, only then will I agree they belong on the top 100 list of invasives. This will have to be something I take up elsewhere and in other circles though. Not in wikipedia, but I do appreciate your conversation on the subject. This issue is far from closed.Mgumert 21:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Mgmert, well, we see the issue differently. First of all, however, I already made my point about terminology, so that is a dead letter as far as I'm concerned, and hopefully on that we can agree. Second, we need to put another issue to rest: if someone has glanced at the IPCA report and come away with the notion that there are 70,000 macaques "taking over Papua", then they are not credible and should be either advised appropriately or discounted. That they have chosen to remain ill-informed is unfortunate but doesn't change the fact that macaques are a very serious biodiversity risk. Why you have trouble acknowledging what the report indicates is quite baffling; because they are not immediately causing extinction in isolation from other factors such as deforestation, etc. simply makes no sense whatsoever. The threat that the IPCA report documents is not simply that regarding their immediate presence in the Jayapura area, but the fact that they are highly ecologically adaptable and thus have the potential to colonize adjacent forests at any time, at which point their impact becomes far greater and the problem un-manageable. By any definition, this is a "very serious" risk, as is acknowledged by the report's statement that "Given the probable consequences of the [Jayapura] macaques becoming invasive, immediate implementation of...a program to mitigate the above mentioned threats is therefore of the highest priority." (p. 7) How this can be read in any way other than that the report concludes that macaques are a very serious biodiversity risk is completely inexplicable. The only such examples I know of similar mis-readings of the conclusions in a scientific report are those found in the Bush White House regarding climate change. You're certainly welcome to provide evidence to the contrary, otherwise, I wish you good luck in convincing credible scientists that macaques are something other than a very serious biodiversity risk in areas where they are non-native species. Arjuna 21:59, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Arjuna: On the very first page of the report it states the main conclusion of the study. "Macaca fascicularis as an alien and potentially invasive species in New Guinea". So yes, they are documented as a potentially invasive species, we should stop them in areas where they are a potential and we have the capability to do something, like new guinea. We agree on this issue. But, more work needs to be done especially on the historical claims they make in the report (they reinvent history in some cases, and I am less convinced by those arguments). I also think they are a bit guilty of overemphasizing things and failing to emphasize others in some instances, which is common in conservation groups' literature b/c they have an agenda. For our purposes, using terms like "very serious" have no place in an encyplodia. Readers make those decisions on their own. The Bush White house is also notorious for making big ordeals from small potentials, although I don't think discussions of Bush really fit into our topic of discussion here, nor am I ignoring fascicularis's danger as an alien, like Bush does with climate. All in all, I think the article reads better now, but can improve. It doesn't have the loaded terms. I have also added this issue to the spot where it is most appropriate, in the conservation section. I don't know if we need to dedicate a whole paragraph do this isue though in the general summary, and restate it again in the diet, as it makes the article read that this is all the animal is, an invasive. 95+% of them are not. Lets introduce it in the beginning in a sentence, and discuss it mainly in the conservation section. There is alot more to this animal than its role as an invasive and that's why I put up this big argument against it. I think it is overemphasized. If makes us overlook so many other aspects of this organism, which are also important to an encyclopedia reader. Can we work to incorporate some more positives of this animal in the article. For example, we give no real info on significant contributions the animal has made to research knowledge, in medical and other fields. We only state they are used. Also - nothing on the social life, cognition, or behavior. Also interesting. Mgumert 19:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)19:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Mgumert, that sounds generally reasonable. I agree that the invasive discussion could (mostly) go into another section (some mention, as with its role in research etc. should go in the intro however), since it is quite reasonable -- even necessary -- as you point out, to discuss the species in its other contexts. In terms of the invasive discussion, we still disagree on how to characterize the degree of threat, but for now let's go back and forth on how to improve the article more generally. On an unrelated note, please remember to "sign" your name by adding four "~"s at the end of your talk contribution. Cheers. Arjuna 19:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Arjuna. Sorry, I always forget to sign my name. It seems we are moving in the right direction. Oh and I have wanted to ask basd on your name - Apakah anda orang Indonesia, gak? I think the issue on invasiveness is a pretty hot debate in those interested in fascicularis and conservation in Indonesia and SE asia. So I think our debate represents that well. best. Mgumert 19:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC) 19:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Mgumert, agreed -- I think I understand where you're coming from better now. Nggak, aku orang bule tapi udah lama di Indonesia, dan suka ceritera Mahabarata aja. Cheers, Arjuna 21:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Fishing

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/indonesia/images/fishing_lg.jpg Is that worthy of putting in the article? Ratattuta (talk) 18:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

If you had permission from TNC for the GNU free documentation thing, then that would be fine -- I somehow doubt they will grant it, but I could be wrong. But more to the point, the article talks about M fascicularis fishing in fast-flowing rivers, not the ocean. It was already known that they fish in rivers, so I removed the added material. Arjuna (talk) 19:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

what is the range?

Could we have a map? Or at least more discription than "Southeast asia"? I am ok with the island description to the south. But how far north do they go? Do they cover all of Indochina? Any of China proper? Burma? Bangladesh, Andamans, India, Ceylon? etc? 72.82.57.163 (talk) 14:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Taxobox image

I have replaced the taxobox image with a better quality one which also had greater encyclopedic value as it was showing more than just the head. Please discuss any changes here before making them--Muhammad(talk) 02:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Reston Ebola Virus

We should include something about Reston Ebolavirus --76.67.96.180 (talk) 01:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Photograph

Please note - the photograph of this species is Wrong. It is of a bonnet macaque (M. Radiata). Can this please be updated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.69.2.13 (talk) 08:14, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

'PHOTOGRAPH is still wrong. This is either a toque or bonnet macaque. Please stop putting macaques from India, as the main picture for long-tailed macaques. Who keeps doing this? June 24, 2012

It also seems to me this is a toque or bonnet macaque or maybe a weird hybrid, if the photograph was really taken from within a crab-eating macaque range. Another picture further down in the article of a mother with a child seems doubtful as well - perhaps the photograph is from a hybrid from a poorly maintained zoo, which is very likely considering how obese this individual is. Both should be changed. Unfortunately I do not have photographs of crab-eating macaques myself. Skamnelis (talk) 15:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I have replaced the two incorrect photographs with appropriate photographs from wikipedia.de Skamnelis (talk) 13:54, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Killer Dolphins

I have posted a long comment in the Talk section of the main Macaque genus article, about the renaming of all the macaque species articles to "[Name] Macaque" (e.g. "Barbary Macaque") from their traditionally names (e.g. Barbary Ape).

Would you please take a look at that here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macaque#Killer_Dolphins

And then correct this individual species article as necessary — I'm not sure which macaque species may have actually been called "[Name] Macaque" traditionally.

(And I hope you can see that the fact that I don't know that, after reading a Wikipedia article about the species, is why rewriting reality in Wikipedia is a problem.)

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.180.30.135 (talk) 12:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Behavior updated and suggestions

I have added a sourced behavior section with a lot of the data that is out there on social behaviors. This page could use some updating in other areas as well. There needs to be a lot more sources for the claims being made. I also would like to recommend that we re-name the page "long-tailed macaque." This is the more common name and has more primary source data (even though it is the same species, searching for "crab-eating macaque" yields fewer results than "long-tailed macaque." I addressed the monkey as a long-tailed macaque throughout.Katims90 (talk) 02:57, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review

Katims90, great job on your additions to the article. It was very well-written and informative, and I only had to make a few minor grammatical changes. There's one thing I think you could expand upon or clarify. The experiment you talked about in the second paragraph of "Kin Altruism and Spite" was a little confusing. When I first read your description of the study, I thought spite was inferred based on the fact that most females did not preferentially share food with their kin, so there was a decrease in giver benefit and also a decrease in kin benefit (they don't get the food). But then in the next sentence you said that "spite fueled feeding kin preferentially." How does this work, since I thought the result from this particular experiment was that kin was actually NOT fed preferentially? I also didn't understand the significance of the sentence "This is due to the observation that food was given to kin for a significantly longer period of time than needed," so if you expanded a little more about that, or just work to clarify the experiment a bit more, it would make your contribution even better! Ihyuan (talk) 02:05, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

This was an interesting article! I liked your additions—I learned a lot about group living and the social interactions between the females and males, and of the young. To be honest, I didn’t see anything that I had to fix regarding sentence structure, grammar, and word choice. However, I did have a few questions. One is, how do hierarchies get established—like through strength and size? Like, how does the alpha male become the alpha male? Also I had a question about infanticide rates being decreased due to uncertainty of paternity—I would actually assume the opposite, because wouldn’t they be more likely to kill the infants if they thought they weren’t his own (lions)? Your Conflict section was very solid, and I don’t think you need to change anything in that. In your Kin Altruism and Spite section, I was confused as to what spite exactly is. It’s shown that they don’t follow the kin selection rule, but how does food being given to kin for a significantly longer period of time than needed relate to spite? Just maybe a couple sentences more on that could clear it up. Great job though, I learned a lot! Alexliu818 (talk) 23:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The article is good and very informative. I made some minor grammatical and sentence structure adjustments, especially to correct a few awkardly-worded phrases. I also added some more links to hopefully help with nominating this page. You have done a great job, though. The article is easy to read and understand, while it presents a great amount of information. WhitleyTucker (talk) 08:41, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Crab-eating macaque/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Sasata (talk · contribs) 17:17, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

This article is not yet ready for GA review. The lead needs to be expanded so that it is a summary of the entire article (see WP:Lead for pointers), and there are two outstanding citation needed tags. There are also several paragraphs without citations that need to be sourced (e.g., 2nd para of etymology, the taxonomy section, the physical characteristics section, 1st para of reproduction, most of diet, 1st para of Distribution and habitat, as well as some end-of-paragraph sentences to which the attribution is unknown. Please address these deficiencies before returning the article to GAN. Sasata (talk) 17:17, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Recent edits

Hello all- I am an undergraduate student who is editing this page as part of a project in a behavioral ecology class at Washington University in St. Louis. So far I have added text and citations to the lead and citations in the text- specifically the references Bonadio, Long, Island of the Monkey God, and Zimmer. Two other students are working on this page as well and will post the changes they have made soon. Amruthapk (talk) 23:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey I'm also working on this page as part of a class project at Washington University in St. Louis. I've added a few citations as well as added a bit more detail to the physical characteristics section, the diet section, as well as the interactions with humans. I've added a significant part detailing how the species is an invasive species. — Preceding Dudas 91 comment added by Dudas 91 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

I am the third member of the group working to improve this article. I have also added several references where they were previously missing. In addition, I added information to the "Physical Characteristics," "Diet," and "Tool Use" sections using reliable sources I found in various literature databases. Please let me know if there are any concerns. Aschefkind (talk) 23:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Overall this is an impressive article. The diet section, however, is not correct in stating that fascicularis cannot digest seeds. The referenced article rather states that fascicularis spit out seeds greater than 3-4 mm (for example apricot or peach nuts). This is not unlike what humans do. In fact the referenced article by Corlett and Lucas only says that apes and new world monkeys have difficulty in digesting seeds, not macaque monkeys. Skamnelis (talk) 15:11, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

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Edit request for changing the main image

@Rhinopias:Are there images of the highest quality that show a full body of the animal? Can somebody do it? Esagurton (talk) 11:20, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Unclear sentence

In the section Reproduction this sentence appears:

"Here they play together, forming crucial bonds that may help them when they leave their natal group."

But it is entirely unclear what the word "here" refers to.

I hope that someone knowledgeable about this subject can fix this. 2601:200:C000:1A0:ED6E:E25D:FE94:D2A6 (talk) 02:56, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

I believe that refers to being on the periphery, since that's what the previous sentence talks about. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:35, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

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NPOV

There's a lot of NPOV language in this article like "most persecuted primate species". Remember that the IUCN Red List Standards and Petitions Committee ruled that the crab-eating macaque's current Red List entry uses too much emotive language, so be careful not to import that language into this article. Eldomtom2 (talk) 20:55, 7 October 2024 (UTC)