Endangered
Arunachal macaque
Macaca munzala
The Arunachal macaque is a macaque native to Eastern Himalayas of Bhutan, China and India.
Appearance
The Arunachal macaque is compactly built and has a very dark face. It is a relatively large brown primate with a comparatively short tail.
It was scientifically described in 2005.
Range and habitat
The Arunachal macaque is a macaque native to Eastern Himalayas of Bhutan, China and India. Its species name comes from mun zala, meaning deep forest (mun) monkey (monkey), as it is called by the Monpa people of West Kameng and Tawang.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Arunachal macaque is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Arunachal macaque, Wikidata item Q716628. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
