Assamese Macaque

The Assam macaque has yellowish-grey to dark brown fur. The face is dark brownish to purplish, and a dark fringe of hair on the cheeks runs back to the ears. The shoulders, head and arms tend to be paler than the greyish hindquarters, and the tail is short but well haired. Head and body length is 51–73.5 cm, the tail 15–30 cm, and adults weigh 5–10 kg (Wikipedia, general species account).

It lives in tropical and subtropical semi-evergreen forests, dry deciduous forests and montane forests, up to 4,000 m. It usually inhabits hilly ground above 1,000 m, but in wetter areas it also occurs in the lowlands. It is diurnal, at times both arboreal and terrestrial, and feeds on fruits, leaves, invertebrates and cereals. It is declining because of poaching, habitat degradation and fragmentation.