Toque roots are sometimes traced to the "casque à meche" (stocking cap) worn by 18th-century French chefs. The colour of the "casque à meche" denoted the rank of the wearer. Boucher, the personal chef of the French statesman Talleyrand, was the first to insist on white toques for sanitary reasons. The modern toque is popularly believed to have originated with the French chef Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), who stiffened the "casque à meche" with cardboard . The pleated, low, round hat worn in French universities the equivalent of the mortarboard or tam at British and American universities is also called a toque.
Toque macaque forest cover in night. Because, these macaques have very little fear for humans and their companions-the dogs. Cheek pouches enable toque macaques to store enough food while eating fast. In the dry zone, they are known to eat drupes of understory shrub "Zizyphus", ripe fruits of "Ficus", and "Cordia" species. They occasionally eat many small animals ranging from small insects to mammals like indian palm squirrels and "Vandeleuria oleracea". Wild cats (leopards and fishing cats) and Indian rock python are the main predators of this species. The lifespan of toque macaques in the wild is about the same as in