Long-Tailed+Macaque

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 * Long-Tailed Macaque**

**Introduction**
=media type="custom" key="9289868"= Common Name: Long-Tailed Macaque

,Scientific Name: Macaca fascicularis

Characteristics: Long-tailed macaques have short arms and legs. They are born with black fur, but this turns to a yellow green, grey-green or reddish-brown shade as they mature. They have a dark muzzle and blue abdominal skin.

Habitat: They prefer to live in coastal, mangrove, swamp and riverine forest up to 2000m.

[[file:MacqueJC.kmz]]
Text - Origin: found on Angaur Island, Palau where they were introduced in the 1900s. Current Location: South East Asia, Philippines, in mainland Malaysia and on Borneo, in Indonesia on Sumatra, Java, Timor, and the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Burma, in India on the Nicobar Islands, and in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.

Invasive Qualities
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the long-tailed macaque is itself an invasive alien species causing serious damage to parts of its range where it has been introduced and populations grow unchecked due to a lack of natural predators. They consume seeds of native plants and help spread exotic weeds throughout the forests, changing the composition of native forests, causing them to be quickly overrun by invasive plant species. They also have directly contributed to the near extinction of several bird species on Mauritius, including the Mauritian green parrot and the pink pigeon. Long-tailed macaques destroy the nests of these birds as they move through their home ranges and cause direct mortality by eating the eggs of these critically endangered species.

**Control**
The Mauritian government has not practiced lethal control as a management option due to socio-religious reasons. As an alternative, the government has used live-trapping for export and research. Officials have not been successful in using scare tactics on the macaques to prevent them from destroying bird nests. There is a quota system in place, which regulates the export of this species. In Thailand, a license is necessary in order to capture, hunt, or keep a crab-eating macaques in captivity.
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