Celebes crested macaque Celebes crested macaque The Celebes crested macaque ("Macaca nigra"), also known as the crested black macaque, Sulawesi crested macaque, or the black ape, is an Old World monkey that lives in the Tangkoko reserve in the northeastern tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (Celebes), as well as on smaller neighboring islands. Locally known as "yaki" or "wolai", its skin and hairless face is, with the exception of some white hair in the shoulder range, entirely jet black. Unusual for a primate, it has striking reddish-brown eyes. The long muzzle with high cheeks and the long hair tuft, or crest,
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