#0263 · 🦊 mammals

Rhesus Macaque

🇳🇱 Resusaap ·Macaca mulatta

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta ) is one of the best-known species of Old World monkeys. It is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and its tolerance of a broad range of habitats. Native to South, Central, and Southeast Asia, rhesus macaque troops inhabit a great variety of habitats, from grasslands to arid and forested areas, but also close to human settlements.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,055iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
11,055 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1790 (236 years ago).