Editing Macaque (section)

{{Short description|Genus of Old World monkeys}}
{{Redirect|Macaca|a racial slur for dark-skinned people|Macaca (term)}}
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| name = Macaques<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=161–165|id=12100528}}</ref>
| image = Bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata) Photograph By Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg
| image_caption = [[Bonnet macaque]] in [[Manegaon, Maharashtra]], India
| taxon = Macaca
| authority = [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1799
| type_species = ''[[Barbary macaque|Simia inuus]]''<ref name=msw3/>
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[12th edition of Systema Naturae|1766]]<br />(= ''Simia sylvanus'' Linnaeus, [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

The '''macaques''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|k|ɑː|k|,_|-|ˈ|k|æ|k}})<ref name="Oxford">{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/macaque |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024093320/https://www.lexico.com/definition/macaque |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |title=macaque |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> constitute a [[genus]] ('''''Macaca''''') of [[sociality|gregarious]] [[Old World monkey]]s of the subfamily [[Cercopithecinae]]. The 23 species of macaques inhabit [[species distribution|ranges]] throughout Asia, [[North Africa]], and Europe (in [[Barbary macaques in Gibraltar|Gibraltar]]). Macaques are principally [[frugivore|frugivorous]] (preferring fruit), although their diet also includes seeds, leaves, flowers, and tree bark. Some species such as the long-tailed macaque (''M. fascicularis''; also called the crab-eating macaque) will supplement their diets with small amounts of meat from shellfish, insects, and small mammals. On average, a [[southern pig-tailed macaque]] (''M. nemestrina'') in [[Malaysia]] eats about 70 large rats each year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/rat-eating-monkeys-in-malaysia-stun-scientists |title=Rat-eating monkeys in Malaysia stun scientists
|first=Sean|last=Keach |newspaper=[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]] |date=October 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/22/asia/macaques-rats-palm-oil-scli-intl-scn/index.html |title=Rat-eating macaques could boost palm oil sustainability in Malaysia |first=Jack|last=Guy |publisher=CNN |date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> All macaque [[social group]]s are arranged around dominant [[matriarchy|matriarchs]].<ref name="Fleagle2013">{{cite book |first=John G.|last=Fleagle |title=Primate Adaptation and Evolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--PNXm0q2O8C&pg=PA123 |publisher=Academic |page=123 |date=8 March 2013 |isbn=978-0-12-378633-3}}</ref>

Macaques are found in a variety of habitats throughout the Asian continent and are highly [[adaptation|adaptable]]. Certain species are [[synanthrope|synanthropic]], having learned to live alongside humans, but they have become problematic in urban areas in [[Southeast Asia]] and are not suitable to live with, as they can carry transmittable diseases.

Most macaque species are listed as vulnerable to critically endangered on the International Union of the Conservation of Nature [[IUCN Red List endangered species (Animalia)|(IUCN)]] Red List.