They typically live in wooded areas near water sources. Rhesus macaques have distinctive reddish-brown fur and long tails. Rhesus macaques are medium-sized monkeys that weigh between 11 and 17 pounds.

The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears. They have close-cropped ...

Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Weighing under a pound at birth, lion-tailed macaques nurse for up to a year. Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Near an old plantation, a young macaque, not quite an adult ...

If it weren’t for a cheeky monkey named Naruto, who, as the story goes, stole a photographer’s camera in an Indonesian park and snapped a selfie, crested black macaques might still be ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...