crab-eating macaque

1 The rare monkeys, sometimes known as crab-eating macaques, are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which requires special permits to be imported into the United States.

2 During fieldwork at Phi Phi Islands, Thailand, spanning several weeks, the photographer focused on documenting the behavior of these crab-eating macaques and their water forages.

3 Further, the crab-eating macaque are already in the state for biological testing.

4 Researchers used the gene editing technology CRISPR to make tweaks to Yucatan miniature pig genes, then removed the kidneys from 21 crab-eating macaques and transplanted the pigs' organs into the monkeys.

5 The monkeypox virus was first identified in 1959 among a group of captive crab-eating macaque monkeys in Copenhagen, Denmark that had been imported for use in polio vaccine research and that had fallen ill with a pustular rash (2).

6 There is one model of depression and anxiety that is about as close to a natural model as researchers will get — the crab-eating macaque.

7 It was first identified in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in crab-eating macaque monkeys that were being used for research, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.