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Macaca fascicularis
"The Crab-eating macaque is a primarily arboreal macaque native to Southeast Asia. It is also called the cynomolgus monkey, Philippine monkey and the long-tailed macaque."
The crab-eating macaque is found in a wide variety of habitats, including primary lowland rainforests, disturbed and secondary rainforests, and riverine and coastal forests of nipa palm and mangrove. They also easily adjust to human settlements; they are considered sacred at some Hindu temples and on some small islands, but a pest around farms and villages. Typically they prefer disturbed habitats and forest periphery. The native range of this species includes most of mainland Southeast Asia, and the Maritime Southeast Asia islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, offshore islands, the islands of the Philippines, and the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Those pictures were taken inside the sacred monkeys forest of Ubud, Bali island, Indonesia.
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