Four new lion-tailed macaques have recently been introduced to Disney’s Animal Kingdom park. The rare monkeys include one male and three females that can be found on the Maharajah Jungle Trek in Asia. The Disney Conservation Fund provides support to the Wildlife Conservation Society to help protect these fascinating animals in the rainforests of southwestern India.
Watch as the new species makes its debut at Animal Kingdom:
Lion-tailed macaques are known for their lion-like manes and tails. They have black silky fur and long gray hairs around their face, with a small tuft of fur at the end of their tail. In addition to using 17 different vocal patterns, macaques also communicate with body language, such as yawning with a grimace to indicate dominance or a threat, and smacking their lips to greet one another. Although they enjoy spending a lot of their time in trees, lion-tailed macaques also come down to the ground to play and forage for food.
Also known as “wanderoo,” lion-tailed macaques are part of an important conservation story, as they rank among the rarest and most threatened primates in the world. They are native to the Western Ghats of South India’s mature evergreen forests, and some reports show that there may be fewer than 2,000 of these monkeys left in the wild. Overpopulation, habitat destruction, fragmentation and other human activities have forced these primates to live in small, isolated pockets of forest (separated by cultivation and open areas). Lion-tailed macaques are sometimes hunted for their meat and, occasionally, as a source of medicine.
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