stump-tailed macaque
noun
: a dark reddish-brown naked-faced short-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides synonym M. speciosa) of eastern Asia
called also stump-tailed monkey
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Other mammals including the red wolf and stump-tailed macaque might also be hybrids.
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Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2011
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Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2011
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