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Species
Endangeredvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- taxon name
- Macaca silenus
- Commons category
- Macaca silenus
- longest observed lifespan
- 40
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- taxon common name
- Lion-tailed macaque
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), locally called wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lion-tailed Macaque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.