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MACAQUE
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Sumon Sinha (Mana)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-12-17 |
| Categories: Mammals |
| Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-H2 |
| Exposure: f/3.7, 1/125 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-05-01 10:24 |
| Viewed: 467 |
| Points: 12 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The macaque constitute a genus of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.
Aside from humans (genus Homo), the macaques are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from northern Africa to Japan. Twenty-two macaque species are currently recognised, and they include some of the monkeys best known to non-zoologists, such as the Rhesus Macaque (as the Rhesus Monkey), Macaca mulatta, and the Barbary Macaque (as the Barbary Ape), M. sylvanus, a colony of which lives on the Rock of Gibraltar. Although several species lack tails, and their common names therefore refer to them as apes, these are true monkeys, with no greater relationship to the true apes than any other Old World monkeys.
Several species of macaque are used extensively in animal testing.
In the late 1990s it was discovered that nearly all (circa 90%) pet or captive macaques are carriers of the herpes-B virus. This virus is harmless to macaques, but infections of humans, while rare, are potentially fatal. A 2005 University of Toronto study showed that urban performing macaques also carried simian foamy virus, suggesting they could be involved in the species-to-species jump of similar retroviruses to humans.
Shot at Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar (not in captivity). I saw this Macaque sitting under a tree and yawning repeatedly. Got this one after a few takes.
Scientific classification -
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
Genus: Macaca (Lacepede, 1799) |
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- trinko
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(4310) - [2007-05-01 10:26]
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nice action shot. i'd increase contrast a bit and sharpen.
bonjour sumon
une formidable expression dans ce portrait,juste qu'un peu d'accentuation aurait été benefique a mon avis.
laurent
Good to see you back after the break, Sumon.
A well time shot of this yawning Macaque -- a resident of the famed zoo in Bhubaneswar I saw once many years ago. I remember shooting White Tigers there.
A dentist would find the view very enervating, the way its upper teeth are so very graphically exposed :-).
TFS.
Hi Sumon, lovely macaque with splendid pose, very nice photo, bravo, ciao Silvio
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- tinman
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(2663) - [2007-05-12 3:55]
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nice action, a little soft in focus maybe, but a good post nevertheless, good interest capture value. Well done
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- Maite
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- [2007-05-16 7:18]
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What a great stunning shot!!
Excellent timing and great capture!
Magnificent point of view and composition.
Very well done!
Congratulations and TFS.
Maite
