#0340 · 🦊 mammals

Bonnet Macaque

🇳🇱 Indische Kroonaap ·Macaca radiata

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The bonnet macaque also known as zati ( Macaca radiata ) is a macaque endemic to southern India. Its distribution is limited by the Indian Ocean on three sides and the Godavari and Tapti Rivers along with a related competing species of rhesus macaque in the north. Land use changes in the last few decades have resulted in changes in its distribution boundaries with the rhesus macaque, raising concern for its status in the wild.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,719iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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.
4,719 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1812 (214 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.