Endangered
White-cheeked macaque
Macaca leucogenys
White-cheeked macaque is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Macaca leucogenys, recorded as Endangered and tied to China.
Appearance
Physiologically, the white-cheeked macaque is similar to the other members of the genus Macaca. The main differences between the two include the presence of white, elongated whiskers on the face of the white-cheeked macaque, that are absent from other species. The whiskers begin to grow as the creatures approach sexual maturity, and eventually cover the whole face, giving the animals a rounded facial appearance.
The species was first described by Chinese primatologists Cheng Li, Chao Zhao, and Peng-Fei Fan, in the American Journal of Primatology in 2015.
Range and habitat
The white-cheeked macaque is a macaque found only in Mêdog County in southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. The white-cheeked macaque lives in forest habitats, from tropical forests to primary and secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests and mixed broadleaf-conifer forests. While the species' exact conservation status has not yet been determined, it is likely threatened by poaching, deforestation, and increased human development of its habitat, much like the other primates that inhabit the area.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
When the white-cheeked macaque detects the presence of humans it emits a loud high pitched alarm call, flees, and climbs trees.
In crisis
White-cheeked 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 White-cheeked macaque, Wikidata item Q19800858. 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.
