Macaca assamensis assamensis

Macaca assamensis assamensis | Eastern Assamese Macaque | ลิงอ้ายเงี้ยะ

Good spot: Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand

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Primatology

Taxonomy & Occurrence

Eastern Assamese Macaque (M. a. assamensis) -- Bhutan, southwestern China, northeastern India, northern Lao PDR, Myanmar, northwestern Thailand, northern Vietnam

Western Assamese Macaque (M. a. pelops) -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal

IUCN Conservation Status

Near Threatened

Seeing this Species

Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand

A group was habituated here at the Huai Mai Sot Yai study site [1].

Please see the page on the Grey Langur for more information on this sanctuary.

Probability of Success: Perhaps not bad if habituated

Overlapping species: Greater Slow Loris, Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Rhesus Macaque, Stump-tailed Macaque, Grey Langur, White-handed Gibbon

*Perhaps surprisingly Long-tailed Macaque do not occur here, even though the park is home to the other four of Thailand's five species of macaque [1].

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References

[1] Schülke O., Pesek D., Whitman B.J. and Ostner J., 2011. Ecology of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. Journal of Wildlife in Thailand 18: 1–15.

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