Endangered
Southern pig-tailed macaque
Macaca nemestrina
The southern pig-tailed macaque, also known as the Sundaland pig-tailed macaque and the Sunda pig-tailed macaque, is a medium-sized macaque that lives in Sundaland, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Appearance
This macaque has buff-brown fur, with a darker dorsal area and lighter ventral area.
As with other Macaca species, males are larger than females. While males are measured at 50–58 cm (20–23 in) in length and 5–12 kg (11–26 lb) in weight, females are measured at 38–48 cm (15–19 in) in length and 4.5–6 kg (9.9–13.2 lb) in weight.
Range and habitat
This macaque is mostly found in rainforest up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), but will also enter plantations and gardens. It is found in the southern half of the Malay Peninsula (only just extending into southernmost Thailand), Borneo, Sumatra and Bangka Island.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
M. Nemestrina is mainly terrestrial, but also a skilled climber. Its diet in the wild consists mainly of fruits such as figs, mangoes, rambutan, and durian.
Even so, it has been recorded to raid crops and eat human-farmed aubergine, maize, rice, papaya, and more commonly cultivated crops in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Southern pig-tailed 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 Southern pig-tailed macaque, Wikidata item Q618026. 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.
