Toque macaque Toque macaque The toque macaque ("Macaca sinica") is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the "rilewa" or "rilawa" (Sinhala රිළවා), (hence "rillow" in the "Oxford English Dictionary"). With age, the face of females turn slightly pink, prominent in the subsp. "sinica". "M. s. sinica" is found from the Vavuniya, Mannar, up to the lowlands of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Puttalam, and Kurunegala along the arid zone of Monaragala, and Hambantota districts. "M. s. aurifrons" can be found sympatrically with subsp. "sinica" within intermediate regions of the country, such as Kegalle, parts of Kurunegala. They
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