#macaques

[natalikoromotoart]

Thinking about the wild macaques we saw in Kyoto last fall✨🍃🤎

[ichimakesart]

Two Macaques

Spontaneous Painting, not sure where it was going at the start but it surely went somewhere.

With two cute macaques ;)

You can see timelapse of this painting at my Kofi - LINK

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[antiqueanimals]

Mother and Son. Watercolor. Maurice Wilson (1914–1987)

The Artist Magazine, 1941.

[bignosebaby]

Happy IKEA monkey day to all those who celebrate

December 11, 2012 was the day Darwin the Japanese macaque was found roaming outside an IKEA in North York, Toronto. He was rescued by Storybook Farm Sanctuary and lives there to this day enjoying the good life with many monkey friends.

[jadeseadragon]

George Ashdown Audsley (Scottish, 1838 - 1925), Baby macaque monkey and mother, vintage Japanesque pair of paintings, from The Ornamental Arts Of Japan, 1884 (Public domain) Digitally enhanced.

[lavendercountry]

I've recently noticed an increase in well-meaning people sharing unethical primate memes.

Unfortunately, the primates in these memes were either taken directly from their habitat to be sold or their parents are breeders that were themselves taken from the wild.

Worse yet, when baby primates are taken from the wild often times their older relatives are poached and sold for meat.

This all contributes to the reason why the majority of primates are endangered.

Let's all do our part by thinking before sharing!

Please feel free to share without credit ☺️

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Japanese macaques at Awaji Island, Japan Hidetoshi Ogata

[sitting-on-me-bum]

These tiny primates are so fragile, they tug at our heartstrings. I’m sure you’ve seen them before, but may not recognize them as rhesus macaques.

Photo by Nikhil Bisht

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

This video was apparently taken in Aonang Beach in Thailand.

I'm guessing it's not cute, but I'm not a professional. Though I am also wondering, how could the person have handled the situation better?

So the person filming didn't do anything bad, but they could have handled this situation better. Good instincts! I always like covering these sort of videos because these scenarios are not uncommon, and it's good to know how to handle a monkey doing some urban foraging.

What the person filming got right:

✅ Staying where you are is ideal. It is actually better in many situations than moving away, and you should definitely not approach.

✅ Not encouraging. Holding out food or "showing" wildlife things is a bad idea, so the fact that they just sat and observed isn't bad.

✅ Not engaging. While you might want to hold onto your snack for your own sake and to keep wildlife from chewing plastic and getting caffienated, snatching the cup back, trying to touch the monkey, or throwing something to get the monkey to drop the cup would be bad.

That being said, here's how this could have been handled better:

🐒 If you see wildlife such as monkeys that are prone to "borrowing"-- while they are still at a distance you should make efforts to secure your belongings, especially food. If this person picked their cup up and put it out of sight the monkey probably wouldnt have bothered attempting a heist.

So while this video is not ideal as monkeys should not have iced coffee, the person filming did things mostly right.

[proserpiiart]

My new socks!! These guys are now available on my store! Proserpiiart.com

It's still incredible to me that I have wearable merch now! Things with my art that you can ear in your day to day life! That's incredible! I hope you guys love these socks as much as I do <3

[lionfloss]

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[feather-bone]

Japanese Macaque ! A chilly guy for a chilly day here in New England. They live the furthest north of all the primates (except humans) and bathe in hot springs in the winter. :-)

[ID: an illustration of a macaque sitting facing to the left, looking toward the viewer with a calm expression. It is on a mottled purple background with green lichens and moss-covered stones. End.]

[ichimakesart]

Rambunctious Company

Pack of city monkeys gets more and more curious of this colorful company...

In order of apperance:

Tanit - @sayonaramidnight

Samir and Ruby - @whispering-jabberwocky

Viktoria and Serafina - @mayaminamoto

Monkey King and Mufti

Our Dm - @raceofhearts

◇☆Timelapses for all of them you can watch on my Kofi ☆◇

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[antiqueanimals]

Drawing Animals. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1964.

Internet Archive

[bignosebaby]

If you've heard of black crested macaques or the Yaki monkey, it is probably this one:

This black crested macaque became famous in 2011 when the photographer David Slater was taking photos in the jungle of Sulawesi Indonesia where black crested macaques are indigenous fauna. Slater was not the photographer who captured this photo, however. It was the macaque who has since been commonly called Naruto who took its own photograph on Slater's camera. The famous monkey selfie sparked a copyright lawsuit brought by PETA onto Slater, which was settled in 2017 with an agreement that Slater would donate a percentage of any profits gained by the pictures Naruto took to organizations that protect this species in the wild.

For the millions who enjoyed Naruto's selfies online, the story ends there. For Naruto and the Yaki the story continues. The black crested macaque is critically endangered. Slater's website says he donates 10% of the proceeds of all "monkey selfie" merchandise to "a monkey conservation project in Sulawesi", and while he does not specify which conservation project he supports, there is one I know of that does incredible work.

Selamatkan Yaki is an operation with a huge impact. The Yaki is one of the most endangered primates in the world, and it can be difficult to gauge just how many of them are out there. This is where biodiversity monitoring comes in to produce the data needed for effective conservation protocol. A pilot study was conducted in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, which has created the blueprint for surveying the entire province using camera traps and remote sensing to observe the Yaki and their threats over time.

Using the data gathered from monitoring, Selamatkan Yaki collaborated with the government agency for natural resource conservation to create a Species Action Plan (SAP). This species action plan is not only an evidence based conservation plan designed to save the Yaki, but all the other species that share its forest home. Establishing the Yaki as a flagship species is crucial as this charismatic monkey is just one of many species that is not found anywhere else in the world.

One of the major threats Yaki face, like many other primate species, is hunting for wildlife trafficking and the bush meat trades. While hunting the Yaki is illegal, it takes a true culture shift to keep endangered animals out of traps and cages. Selamatkan Yaki has developed both community conservation and environmental education programs designed to unite local communities in protecting the species. The community conservation program involves surveys conducted since 2007 so that long term data on human-animal relationships can be tracked to best identify community conservation methods. This data is used in the environmental education program which introduces information on biodiversity and conservation to school curriculum and provides research opportunities and scholarships for post secondary students to contribute to conservation.

Selamatkan Yaki understands that it isn't enough to have a team of people dedicated to saving the black crested macaque-- the more people who care and help the better. Everyone has a role to play in conservation, but right now so many people outside Indonesia have only ever seen the black crested macaque once, in a photo online. That's why I'm partnering with Selamatkan Yaki to spread information about the work they do and the species they protect. To learn more about Selamatkan Yaki you can click the links in this post, and stay tuned for more on the black crested macaque.

[peacephotography]

Photograph: Hidetoshi Ogata