Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the tail tufted like a lion's: applied by Pennant to species of the genus Macacus.
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Examples
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The Indian government and the Tamil Nadu state government have the power to stop the further destruction of the forest immediately and also create links between the forest fragments to aid the migration of the endangered lion-tailed macaque in the long-run? but have so far not done so.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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Evidence: Numbers of lion-tailed macaques are decreasing rapidly due to forest fragmentation.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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India? lion-tailed macaqueAction: Stop forest destruction to protect the lion-tailed macaque
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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Description: Forest fragmentation is threatening populations of the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) by separating sub-populations and restricting them to small fragments with high population densities.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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Conservationists recommend the creation of corridors between forest fragments for the migration of male lion-tailed macaque.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Asia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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The charismatic endangered lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) and Nilgiri macaque (Semnopithecus johnii) are other endemic species that need intact habitat and are highly threatened by habitat conversion.
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Among flagship mammal species, the most prominent are the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus, EN), found in highly fragmented tropical rain forests in the Western Ghats, and the endemic Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius, EN), which lives in the montane grasslands of the Western Ghats.
Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 2008
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From where we're sitting, we can't see those chimp brothers and sisters, only the silo-cages across the driveway filled with various monkeys, and the capuchin and a lion-tailed macaque living in side-by-side cages next to us on the porch.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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For example, the lion-tailed macaque, on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border.
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The enclosures for the macaques (Assamese, rhesus and lion-tailed) are each 64 sq.m. as against the 500 sq.m. required for a pair.
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