📸 PhotoPhoto: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Taiwanese Macaque
Macaca cyclopis (Taiwanese Macaque · タイワンザル)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its maximum weight of 18 kg is nearly a full 20 kg bag of rice (Comparison).
- 💡 Its body length of 45 cm is about 1.5 times the long side of an A4 sheet of paper (29.7 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 Reported to raid crops, it sometimes comes into conflict with people near village fields.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Taiwanese Macaque is a macaque living in Taiwan, inhabiting forests and grasslands from the coast to high mountains.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its soft fur is dark gray in winter and olive-brown in summer, with slightly bluish belly skin. It carries food in its cheek pouches.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
An omnivore that eats fruits, leaves, seeds, insects, and small vertebrates, it also raids farm crops. Females give birth to a single young at a time, mating from November to January and giving birth from April to June.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2020) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12550/17949875
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000605
- • iucnredlist.org — 17949875
- • wikidata.org — Q713841
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Taiwanese macaque (Macaca cyclopis) female Yangmingshan
- • animaldiversity.org — Macaca cyclopis
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Matthew Schmitz · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Macaca mulatta)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.