macaque
macaque
Definition
ma·caque (mə käk′)
noun
any of a genus (Macaca) of monkeys of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, with a long or short tail that is not prehensile, including the rhesus monkey and Barbary ape
Etymology: Fr < Port macaco, monkey
macaque
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: In the early ' 90s an undercover investigator discovered that macaques used in a drug inhalation test were mistreated by technicians.
- crab-eating: Crab-eating macaques from Asia are by far the most heavily traded monkeys, followed by rhesus and squirrel monkeys.
- kill: One SHIV used in monkeys and mutated into a pathogen so powerful that it kills rhesus macaques in weeks [ 9 ] .
- eat: Some crab eating macaques were brought in from Shamrock, which I was later able to demonstrate against and see closed.
- involve: The applicants had also explained that a further study involving macaques would not have led to any reduction in the numbers of animals used.
- house: A group of wild Buton macaques were compared to a group of captive Sulawesi crested macaques housed at Paignton zoo.
Adjective modifier
- stump-tailed: He will be greatly missed and we will be dedicating the new house for the stump-tailed macaques in his memory.
- lion-tailed: The study has developed non-invasive tools to quantify HPA activity in lion-tailed macaques.
- crested: A group of wild Buton macaques were compared to a group of captive Sulawesi crested macaques housed at Paignton zoo.
- captive: The provision of a small swimming pool for captive macaques is an effective contribution to improving their welfare.
- female: Suggest one reason why subadult female macaques might handle the infants more than adult or juvenile female macaques.
Modifies a noun
- monkey: We examined this role of attention in the inferior temporal cortex of macaque monkeys, using a visual search paradigm.
- brain: One wrote ' we cannot use the macaque brain even as a rough guide ' .
Noun used with modifier
- rhesus: In 2000, more than 400 rhesus macaques - found to be carrying herpes B - were required to be shot in UK zoos.
- cynomolgus: Evaluation of the bioeffects of prenatal ultrasound exposure in the cynomolgus macaque ( Macaca fascicularis ): II.
- bonnet: The form and function of infant handling in bonnet macaques.
- adult: METHODS Two human eyes and one adult macaque monkey eye received retinal laser photocoagulation that was just suprathreshold, before enucleation or exenteration.
- baby: It was at this point that the two baby macaques began to show their characters.
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