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BONNET MACAQUE
IDENTIFICATION: A grayish brown monkey with a circular “cap” of hair on the head, a prominent wrinkled brow and forehead, and a long tail (over 2 feet in males). DISTRIBUTION: Southern India. HABITAT: Forests, scrub, open areas. STUDY AREAS: Near Somanathapur Sandal Reserve and Byrankuppe (Mysore State), Dharwar, Karnataka (Tamil Nadu), and Lal Bagh (Bangalore), India; California Primate Research Center; State University of New York; subspecies
CRAB-EATING MACAQUE
IDENTIFICATION: A gray-green to reddish brown monkey with a slight pointed crest, pinkish face, and long tail. DISTRIBUTION: Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Philippines, Nicobar Islands, and introduced to Palau. HABITAT: Forests, swamps. STUDY AREAS: Angaur Island, Palau, Micronesia; Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center; University of California—Berkeley.
Social Organization
Both Bonnet and Crab-eating Macaques live in fairly large matriarchal groups containing numerous adult males and females as well as youngsters; males typically emigrate from their home group on becoming adults. Bonnet groups can be as large as 50–60 monkeys, but most average around 18–20 individuals, with four or five each of adult males and females. Male Bonnets demonstrate a strong tendency to interact and cooperate with one another, often forming supportive COALITIONS together. Crab-eating Macaques live in troops containing 40–50 individuals on average; smaller groups each contain 2–9 adult males. Large subgroups of youngsters, as well as some peripheral or solitary animals, also occur.
Description
Homosexual mounting also occurs in male Crab-eating Macaques. In addition, male Crab-eaters may mouth and fondle the genitals and anal region of another male, including using their index finger to investigate the area. Males can also develop intense sexual friendships with one another, especially between older and younger males. In one such pair observed in captivity, affectionate embraces frequently led to sexual arousal and homosexual mounting, often accompanied by excited lip-smacking or crooning sounds; the male being mounted sometimes even turned his head to kiss his partner during a mount. Both consensual and nonconsensual mounting occurs in Crab- eating Macaques—in the former (54 percent of mounts between males), the mounted animal fully cooperates by standing still and helps support the weight of the other male (and perhaps even initiates the encounter). In nonconsensual mounts (46 percent of mounts between males), the mounting animal may corner his partner and hold him down (this also occurs in heterosexual mounting). Male Crab-eaters also occasionally engage in homosexual contact with other species. Wild Crab-eating Macaques sometimes allow male Orang-utans to perform fellatio on them, while in captivity they have been known to attempt copulation with males of a number of nonprimate species, including foxes.