How to Use macaque in a Sentence

macaque

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• His hair and beard appeared to have been cut by a macaque.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The keepers can't wait for Hoosiers to meet the macaques and see their playful side.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• In some cases, the macaques also bit the deer or pulled on their antlers.
  — Noëlle Gunst, National Geographic, 16 Dec. 2017
• The biorhythm lasts for one day in rats; four days in macaques; five days in sheep; and six to 12 days in humans.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
• The only thing that mattered was how many friends the macaque had made through grooming.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
• The macaques are fairly self-sufficient and the keepers rarely get close to them.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
• This photo offers a rare glimpse of the swimming movement of a male macaque.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Pretty soon, other macaques were joining in on the fun.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• Young male macaques have been seen clinging to female deer and trying to mate with them.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Now, the macaques dress in diapers, walk on stilts play air hockey with passers-by.
  — National Geographic, 27 Feb. 2020
• In less than 40 years, the crested black macaque has declined here by over 80 percent.
  — Becca Cudmore, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
• By Slater’s own admission, the macaque had pressed the shutter on his camera, which proved to be the crux of the lawsuit against him.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• This troop of Japanese macaques lives in the north, near Nagano, the mountainous, snowy site of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• The macaques showed troubling brain and behavioral changes.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, Celebes crested macaques visit the piles of plastic to try and get liquid out of the containers.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Up to 700 rhesus macaques roam around, sometimes in troops, near the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile, an 18-year-old macaque named Luffy did his best to woo Yakei, much to her displeasure.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• In July, a macaque injured its finger by placing it in a small hole that was part of its cage.
  — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• But to a macaque's brain cells, says a group of researchers, the images are fascinating.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
• Pete, 17, strolls past with his pet macaque clinging to his shoulders.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Of the 51 total births at the sanctuary, 16 baby macaques died or were stillborn.
  — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
• Old World monkeys like macaques have equal parts eccrine and apocrine glands.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• Still, contracting the virus is rare, even among people exposed to macaques.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
• In the backrooms of Bali’s bird market in Indonesia, young macaque monkeys like this one are bought and sold.
  — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• Luncz set up camera traps and recorded the macaques breaking open palm nuts (see video, above) with hammer stones.
  — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
• Ahh, to be a Japanese macaque soaking in your own private hot tub.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
• In one video, a macaque sits with a firm grip on a pair of glasses while people try to tempt it with a parade of different snacks.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• But a macaque's social rank didn't affect its huddle size.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
• Of those, only six would survive: three leopards, two macaques, and one small grizzly bear, all of which had been left in their cages.
  — Longreads, 17 May 2018
• All told, more than a dozen mammalian species have been cloned, including macaques, red deer, cats, and water buffalo.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024