macaques in English

noun
1
a medium-sized, chiefly forest-dwelling Old World monkey that has a long face and cheek pouches for holding food.
A lot more is known about cercopithecines, such as macaques , baboons and vervets, because many of them are ground-dwelling monkeys which are relatively easy to study.

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1. The macaques work as a co-ordinated team, ducking and diving.

2. The macaques' delicate hands look remarkably human and are well adapted for grasping and holding objects.

3. Also known as snow monkeys Japanese macaques are the world's northernmost non - human primates.

4. If we look at the genetic difference between humans, great apes, and rhesus macaques, that number is seven percent.

5. After passing the yellow fever virus through laboratory mice, Theiler found that the weakened virus conferred immunity on rhesus macaques.

6. M. Catarrhalis is a human pathogen with an affinity for the human upper respiratory tract. Other primates, such as macaques, might become infected by this bacterium.

7. Sterck, Olesen, and Massen (2015, Journal of Comparative Psychology) (PDF, 94KB) examined whether long-tailed macaques (Macaca fasicularis) engage in true Altruistic behavior, where there is a cost to the donor

8. Kawaoka's team observed this virulence in mice and macaques as well, but pigs showed no outward signs of disease even though the virus reproduced capably in the swine respiratory system.

9. In an attempt to study the molecular diversity of simian adenoviruses in nonhuman primate (NHP) populations, we screened a colony of Captively bred rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in China for the presence of adenoviral DNA in stool samples

10. Crab-eating macaques are already an established model organism for studies of atherosclerosis, though Poo chose to emphasize neuroscience, naming Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease when he appeared on the radio news program All Things Considered in January 2018.

11. The specific activities of Adducted proteins (nanomoles bound per milligram protein) generated in in vitro incubations of nasal epithelium from rats or rhesus macaques varied from 1.0 to 1.5 nmol/mg protein; we noted no statistically significant difference in the data obtained from rat olfactory and septal epithelium compared with rhesus

12. Adult, prenatally Androgenized female rhesus macaques (female pseudohermaphrodites) that had been ovariectomized were treated with estradiol benzoate (20 μg/day) and paired with males at weekly intervals for 4 weeks beginning on Day 12 of injection. Their sexual behavior was compared to that of a control group of females.