Philippine long-tailed macaque Philippine long-tailed macaque The Philippine long-tailed macaque ("Macaca fascicularis philippensis") is a subspecies of the crab-eating macaque, known in various Philippine languages as "matching"/"matsing" or the more general term "unggoy" ("monkey"). It is endemic in the Philippine forests and woodlands, but especially in the mangrove forests of western central Philippines— particularly in Palawan, the Visayas, and Mindanao. The names "M. f. philippinensis" or even "M. f. philippinenesis" have also been used, but arise from orthographical error. The Philippine long-tailed macaque has a reddish-brown coat. Its tail has an average length of 50 cm to 60 cm. It can reach a
Tibetan macaque in males but is a more vivid, reddish-pink in females. The infants have silver-and-black fur that changes to its adult color at the age of two. The Tibetan macaque lives in mixed sex groups. In their complex social system, females remain for life in their natal group, but males disperse shortly after their adolescence (at about 8 years old). Macaque societies are hierarchical, with higher-ranking males getting better access to the resources, namely food and sexually-receptive females. Alpha males dominate the group, being those that are typically large, strong and newly mature. As they age, males tend to gradually lose