Editing Macaque (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
Macaques are highly [[adaptability|adaptable]] to different habitats and climates and can tolerate a wide fluctuation of temperatures and live in varying landscape settings. They easily adapt to human-[[built environment]]s and can survive well in [[urban wildlife|urban settings]] if they are able to obtain food. They can also survive in completely [[natural environment|natural settings]] absent of humans.

The ecological and geographic ranges of the macaque are the widest of any non-human primate. Their habitats include the tropical rainforests of [[Southeast Asia]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[India]], arid mountains of [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]], and temperate mountains in [[Algeria]], [[Japan]], [[China]], [[Morocco]], and [[Nepal]]. Some species also inhabit villages and towns in cities in Asia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Knight |first=John |date=August 1999 |title=Monkeys on the Move: The Natural Symbolism of People-Macaque Conflict in Japan |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |language=en |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=622–647 |doi=10.2307/2659114 |jstor=2659114 |s2cid=143569917 |issn=0021-9118}}</ref> There is also an introduced population of [[rhesus macaque]]s in the [[United States|US]] state of [[Florida]] consisting, essentially, of monkeys abandoned when a failed boat ride-safari was shut down in the mid-20th century.

A probable Early Pliocene macaque [[Molar (tooth)|molar]] from the [[Red Crag Formation]] ([[Waldringfield]], United Kingdom), represents one of the oldest and northernmost records of the genus in Europe reported to date.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pickford |first1=M. |last2=Gommery |first2=D. |last3=Ingicco |first3=T. |year=2023 |title=Macaque molar from the Red Crag Formation, Waldringfield, England |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=79 |issue=1 |pages=26–36 |doi=10.37520/fi.2023.003 |s2cid=265089167 |doi-access=free }}</ref>