Booted Macaque

• Common Name: Booted Macaque
• Taxonomy Classification Year: 1841
• Monkey Size: 50 to 59 cm (19.68 to 23.23 in)
• Skin Color(s): Deep black, dark red to tan
• Habitat: Rainforest
• Diet: Herbivorous
• Native Countries: Indonesia

The booted macaque^[1] is a macaque native to Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. This Old-World monkey is diurnal, spending most of the day in trees.

• Female booted monkeys have dark, round faces with deep-set, forward-facing eyes. A mane of light grey-brown fur is fanned out and covers the ears.
• The upper part of the mane is black. Their slender torso is also covered in black fur, which ends at the back and the beginning of the limbs.
• These sections are faded to a similar but lighter color found in the mane. The pelage around their hands and feet fades to a darker shade, somewhat brown.
• Males exhibit the same basic pattern as females but are more prominent. In addition, specific coloration appears to vary more individually than sex.
• Aside from size, the much larger upper canines in males are a critical difference between males and females.

• A booted macaque monkey’s body mass is determined by its sex, with males significantly larger than females.
• The species often hybridize with Tonkean macaques, where the ranges of the two species overlap.
• These macaques are exceptionally sociable but behave according to a strict social hierarchy. Therefore, individuals adjust their behavior according to their position in the hierarchy.
• They live in groups of 12 to 30, consisting of several adult males and females and their young. Booted macaques usually have twice as many women as men in a group.
• Macaques are considered the world’s most adaptable non-human primates. 23 species are scattered across the Old World, surviving in various environments, including busy cities!