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macaques  

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  • The macaques are successful Old World monkeys (family Cercopithecidae)that are members of the genus Macaca, of which there are some 20 species. Macaques are the most wide-ranging primate species except for humans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Macaques]

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