#0300 · 🦊 mammals
Formosan Rock Macaque
🇳🇱 Formosamakaak ·Macaca cyclopis
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what is it?
The Formosan rock macaque ( Macaca cyclopis ), Formosan rock monkey , or Taiwanese macaque , is a macaque endemic to the island of Taiwan and has been introduced to Japan. Besides humans, Formosan Rock Macaques are the only native primates living in Taiwan.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,088 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert Swinhoe in 1863 (163 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Formosan Rock Macaque
- Nederlands
- Formosamakaak
- scientific name
- Macaca cyclopis
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Cercopithecidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,088
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1863 by Robert Swinhoe
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43450, Wikidata Q713841, GBIF 2436615, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.