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Disease outbreak experience alters food safety behaviors in macaque monkeys • Oct. 21, 2026, 12:02 PM ET (News-Medical)
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Also Known As Macaca

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Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus)
monkey
crested black macaque
Japanese macaque
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Two Japanese macaques at Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano, Japan, with one grooming the other's fur as they sit close together.
Liontail macaque (Macaca silenus).
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Line drawings compare the head of a red-backed saki, a New World monkey with a rounded, bushy face and thick fur, to the head of a Japanese macaque, an Old World monkey with a longer, more angular face and less prominent facial hair.
How snow monkeys survive winter in the Japanese Alps
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