Macaque

The animal I have chosen to study is the Japanese macaque, more commonly known as the Japanese snow monkey. Sir David Attenborough recently described the macaque as “one of the most successful and versatile of all primates”, commending its capacity to be “versatile, resilient, enterprising, tough and capable of surviving in extreme conditions”. This essay will continue by examining the Japanese macaque in a number of ways. Firstly, I will describe the physical characteristics of the animal, paying

Introduction Macaque species constitute a family Macaca that is a gathering of old world monkeys of the cercopithecinae subfamily. The species has twenty-two individuals all living in distinctive environmental specialties. The principle engages that researchers have with the species is the social structures that the species display. Inside their groups, there is a reasonable chain of command complete with obligations and obligations. In this way, the species does show an expanded discernment remainder

The Japanese Macaque, also known as the snow monkey, are a popular tourist attraction at national parks in Japan. However, these primates are much more than a tourist attraction. There has been more than 40 years of research conducted on the Japanese macaque, leading to a large amount of information about this intricate species (Sommer, 2006). Unlike a large number of primate species whose populations are endangered, these primates are a respected species in Japan, indicated by their status of Lower

rodents (Gaughen 3). However, a research proved that a lot of non-human primates, which are more similar to human beings that any other animals, are taken away from the wild and are sold to research laboratories (Mur 2). For instance, up to 2,000 macaque monkeys, which are already listed endangered in the international Union for the Conservation of Nature are stolen from the wild and sold to Japanese laboratories every year (2). Note that these monkeys are already endangered and yet, thousands of

Micheletta, Whitehouse, Parr, and Waller (2015) tested three crested macaques (Macaca nigra) using matching-to-sample tasks. The researchers’ goal was to determine whether these crested macaques were capable of discriminating between facial expressions and whether visual stimuli affected performance. There were two separate experiments in which the crested macaques were to match a photograph of a specific facial expression to an exemplar while other examples of different expressions and neutral faces

     It is common in monkeys, apes and humans that behavior and social organization aren’t necessarily programmed into the genes. There have been several cases where an entire troop has learned from the experiences of just a few. In a group of Japanese macaques, for example, a three-year-old female female developed the habit of washing dirt of of sweet potatoes before she

Varying Patterns of Speciation Wallace’s line, located in the Malay-Archipelago, is one of the best known and most studied boundaries of zoogeography in the world. It is a transition zone between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and the islands of Bali and Lombork, which marks both the convergence and division of the diverse flora and fauna found in the Asian (Borneo, The Philippines, and Western Indonesia), and the Australian regions (Sulawesi, Eastern Indonesia, Australia, and New Guinea)

placed back into the womb. Eighty percent of the infants died (37). The experiments conducted in New York University’s research laboratories are cruel and the details are horrendously graphic. Researchers intentionally mutilate the eyes of the baby Macaque monkeys,

animals even hunt one another. However, there are more advanced examples of resource warfare in the animal kingdom. Macaque monkeys, who largely reside in Asia and the Middle East, live in tribes that have an inner hierarchy, similar to some human tribal societies. Oftentimes, if one macaque tribe finds an area that would be beneficial to inhabit, with plentiful food sources, but another macaque tribe is already inhabiting the area, the two tribes will then engage in a turf war in which one

Animal Testing and Researching Animal testing is supported by some, but opposed to others. The growing number of animals used in research differs among the different countries. The fruit fly and nematode are the most used animal in testing. However, the most common mammals used in animal research are mice and rats. Shaved albino rabbits and guinea pigs suffer severe testing for skin irritancy and eye irritancy. Though the usage of non-human primates are outlawed in some countries, the U.S. still