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Lion-tailed Macaque
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Lion-tailed Macaque

Macaca silenus

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)(known as സിംഹവാലൻ കുരങ്ങ് in Malayalam), or the wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

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Lion-tailed Macaque in Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.72

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43446.