Crab-eating macaque 27% animal matter, 15% flowers and other plant matter, and 14% food provided by humans. This species exhibits particularly low tolerance for swallowing seeds. Despite their inability to digest seeds, many primates of similar size swallow large seeds, up to , and simply defecate them whole. The crab-eating macaque, though, spits seeds out if they are larger than . This decision to spit seeds is thought to be adaptive; it avoids filling the monkey’s stomach with wasteful bulky seeds that cannot be used for energy. It also can help the plants by distributing seeds to new areas: Crab-eating macaques eat
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