macaque
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- noun
- /məˈkæk/
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macaque
- Other species, such as the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), have no problem surviving in a beach habitat.
- rhesus macaque
The eyes of certain monkeys like macaque monkeys are remarkably similar to human eyes.
- The eyes of certain monkeys like macaque monkeys are remarkably similar to human eyes.
- If you want a monkey to like you, you learn this working with macaques.
- If you look at a mapping of cortical expansion from say macaque or chimp to human, it's the very same map that you'll find the two A receptors in.
- So macaque, stupid neighbor of monkey Irish person when someone asked, oh, what's that bulge?
Examples
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A small part of a macaque's brain is activated when it sees another monkey making a mistake.
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A group of macaques groomed each other while sitting on a rock.
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And so he actually did experiments in macaque monkeys.
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The eyes of certain monkeys like macaque monkeys are remarkably similar to human eyes.
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That one there is a macaque, those two are rhesus, and the bunch up there are langurs.
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To investigate, the researchers taught a game to two macaques, a type of monkey.
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Long-tailed and pigtailed macaques could also be seen foraging on the ground and clambering through the trees.
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The stump-tailed macaque is the only mammal other than Homo sapiens to exhibit male pattern baldness.
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The most significant species occurring here are the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) and the Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis).
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The playful macaque swung from branch to branch in the forest.
Compounds
- Indian
A medium-sized monkey from southern India with a rounded tuft of hair on its head
- Indian
A monkey with a small tuft of hair on its head that lives in northeastern India
- Philippine
A monkey from Southeast Asia that often eats crabs and lives near rivers
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Etymology
The word macaque comes from the Portuguese macaco, which itself came from an African word for 'monkey'. So a macaque is simply the local name for this kind of short-tailed monkey, and that origin helps you remember its meaning.