Booted Macaque

About this species

Size

Head and body 50–59cm; tail 35–40cm

Diet

Figs, buds, invertebrates and cereals

Range

Sulawesi and the islands of Muna and Buton, Indonesia

The Sulawesi booted macaque is a diurnal Old World monkey measuring 50–59 cm from head to body, with a tail reported at 35–40 cm. Unlike the more ground-oriented Heck’s macaque account, the source opened for this species says it spends most of the day in trees. Two forms have been recognised: the nominate Sulawesi population and the Muna-Buton macaque, historically treated as the subspecies Macaca ochreata brunnescens (Wikipedia, general species account; Mammal Diversity Database).

Its recorded foods include figs, plant buds, cereal grains and invertebrates, giving the species a mixed diet rather than a strictly fruit-based one. The account opened supplies no reliable group size, reproductive timing or gestation figure, so none is inferred from other macaques. The Mammal Diversity Database confines the species to Indonesia, and the subspecific names point to its occurrence on Sulawesi and the nearby islands of Muna and Buton. All measurements and ecological statements here are species-wide and are not claims about a particular Sulawesi locality (Wikipedia, general species account).

Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)