Celebes Black Macaque

A Celebes black macaque (Macaca nigra) strips ripe fruit from a fig tree in Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve on Sulawesi, one of two Indonesian islands that serve as the primate's sole habitat.

The monkey species is often mistaken for a type of ape, owing to its black coloring and a truncated tail.

Slightly more than a hundred thousand of the primates are thought to exist. In August 2008 the IUCN added the species to its list of critically endangered animals.

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