Assamese Macaque Macaca assamensis
Assamese Macaque, Mo Chu River, Punakha, Bhutan, March 2008 - click for larger image

Mo Chu River, Punakha, Bhutan
March 2008

The Assamese Macaque is distributed in north-east India, the eastern Himalayas, Indochina, southern China and Thailand. They are found in forest up to about 2,900 metres.
Assamese Macaque, Mo Chu River, Punakha, Bhutan, March 2008 - click for larger image They are active during the day and spend quite a lot of time on the ground where they eat fruit, leaves, insects and crops often storing the food in their cheek pouches.
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