Toque macaque toque macaques in Sri Lanka. The results indicated that an epizootic dengue virus was active among the macaques. A single epizootic had taken place between October 1986 and February 1987 during which 94% of the macaques within the 3 km2 study site were exposed to the virus. The epizootic was highly focal in nature because macaques living 5 km from the study population were not exposed to the virus. The transmission of dengue viruses among macaques in the wild may have important public health implications. Toque macaque The toque macaque ("Macaca sinica") is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to
White-cheeked macaque White-cheeked macaque The white-cheeked macaque ("Macaca leucogenys") is a species of macaque found only in Mêdog County in southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. The white-cheeked macaque lives in forest habitats, from tropical forests to primary and secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests and mixed broadleaf-conifer forests. The species was first described by its discoverers, Chinese primatologists Cheng Li, Chao Zhao, and Peng-Fei Fan, in the "American Journal of Primatology" in 2015. It is one of twenty-three extant species in the genus "Macaca", and the most recent to be formally described to science. While the species' exact conservation status has