Today we will show the life of one of the most popular primates on the planet is the famous red-faced macaques because his face has a reddish appearance inhabit the island of Japan where they are called nihonzaru, its English translation would be monkey from Japan.
They are considered the best-known primates of the Old World, they stand out for their intelligence, as well as their habits of bathing frequently in thermal waters to warm up. Due to their characteristics, they have been studied for more than 50 years.
Let's get as close as possible to the description of this primate. They present sexual dimorphism, the females are smaller than the males, but in general terms, they are animals of medium size and prominent and robust body. Males can reach a height of 57 centimeters in adulthood and weigh a respectable 15 kilograms, while females can measure about 45 centimeters and weigh about 7 kilograms.
They have a thick skin accompanied by a thick gray fur, with shades of brown, the only parts of his body that do not have hairs in his face and butt, with the reddish tone that is pronounced in cold climates.
It lives only in Japan, endemic par excellence only inhabits Japanese islands such as Shikoku, Honshu, Kyushu, Shodo, Kojima, Kinkazan, Yaku, Awaji, to name a few, being the northern region where they can be appreciated in large numbers.
In these islands, there are some fantastic subtropical and subarctic forests with an altitude of 1,500 altitudes, being the cold areas with temperatures of 10.9 degrees Celsius the favorites to inhabit.
Although some populations have managed to develop in other places different from the usual, a few years ago a population was introduced in the Texas United States, in a site specializing in primates, some failed to survive, but much of the population and adapted to their new home.
They are especially herbivorous, they feed especially on large numbers of grasses, but they also feed on animals, this depends mainly on the season, being their preferred foods, fruits, leaves, seeds, roots, nectar, tree bark, insects, small animals.
There are numerous groups, up to 700 of them have found grouped, but normally they group up to 40 macaques, they are basically diurnal and they can spend long periods as much in the earth as in the trees.
Needless to say, they are a very social species. Some groups can be of only females or only males, which denotes a mixed activity at the time of confirming the groups.
There is an important part in the hierarchy, where the male is the leader and whoever has less rank has less access to certain privileges and food.
They have to say it in a more human way, certain cultural traits that they share, as it is to maintain the internal corporal temperature, the collective action is to submerge in thermal waters.
On one of the islands where these incredible primates live, they learned to wash sweet potatoes, which they soak in seawater, and they also wash the wheat. These behaviors have been passed down from generation to generation.
Males reach sexual maturity at the age of 20, while females can reach sexual maturity between the ages of 6 and 18. 1 female will be a couple of 10 males during her lifetime.
They have a gestation period of 173 days.
So far these specimens are not included in any list of animals in danger of extinction.
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