#0418 · 🦊 mammals
Southern Pig-tailed Macaque
🇳🇱 Lampongaap ·Macaca nemestrina
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what is it?
The southern pig-tailed macaque ( Macaca nemestrina ) is a medium-sized macaque that lives in southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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.
- 2,815 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Pig-tailed Macaque
- Nederlands
- Lampongaap
- scientific name
- Macaca nemestrina
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Cercopithecidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,815
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43455, Wikidata Q618026, GBIF 2436611, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.