Sadly, macaques are also among the most exploited primates. Every year, over 100,000 primates — mostly macaques — are housed in U.S. labs, often alone in barren cages.
#InternationalMacaqueWeek is our opportunity to speak up and demand better for them. 🔚
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Today wraps up #InternationalMacaqueWeek! 🐒
May 1–7 is a global annual celebration of macaques — a chance to promote respect & protection for these incredible animals.🌿
Let's learn more about them! 🧵
Info & graphics by the Asia for Animals Macaque Coalition.
Enjoy these recent photos of Sissy, a 23-year-old female long-tailed macaque, at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary this #InternationalMacaqueWeek!
#PrimateSanctuary #MonkeySanctuary #WildlifeRescue #WildlifeSanctuary #MonkeyRescue #Macaques
Yesterday's post for Day 6 of #InternationalMacaqueWeek ♥️
What can we do as individuals to help end this exploitation?
💄 Always buy cruelty-free products
🪧 Support petitions & donate
🔊 Educate yourself & the people around you
#RespectTheirNature
Captured female long-tailed macaque with infant, Indonesia; Action for Primates
Female rhesus macaque with infant, Swayambhunath Temple, Nepal; Jo Anne Mcarthur/We Animals
During #InternationalMacaqueWeek, find out more about #macaques & the work of @asiaforanimals #MacaqueCoalition & its members to protect & conserve these fascinating & intelligent species, as well as promoting peaceful & respectful coexistence with humans: www.macaquecoalition.com/internationa...
One place where #macaques are still abused for tourist #selfishselfies is Djemaa el Fna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Marrakech, #Morocco.
#InternationalMacaqueWeek is a good time to be working on a plan, watch this space...
Ecoflix
Born Free Foundation
PrimateSocietyofGreat Britain
IPPL
Amanzi is a 23-year-old Japanese macaque. She LOVES to play with water from the hose while caregivers refill water troughs. Her favorite foods include bananas, anything she can steal, and peanuts!
This #InternationalMacaqueWeek, learn more about our sanctuary! www.bornfreeusa.org/primate-sanc...
Born Free USA’s primate sanctuary is home to six macaque species – Japanese macaques, bonnet macaques, rhesus macaques, pig-tailed macaques, long-tailed macaques, and stump-tailed macaques. Learn more about them this #InternationalMacaqueWeek! www.bornfreeusa.org/2024/05/01/c...
🐵 It’s #MonkeyMonday and #InternationalMacaqueWeek! Besides humans, macaques are the most wide-spread group of primates. 🗺️📌 Macaques are one of the main species our sanctuary is expected to house in the future! 🫶🐒🫶🐒🫶
#monkey #conservation #sanctuary
Family of bonnet macaques, India; Parin Parmar, Dreamstime
It is #InternationalMacaqueWeek; an opportunity to promote understanding & respect for these amazing, intelligent & social non-human primates, often the target of so much exploitation & persecution. To find out more www.macaquecoalition.com/internationa... #MacaquePositivity
Illustration from an 1899 edition of Richard Lydekker's New Natural History. Macaques everywhere, for #InternationalMacaqueWeek!
#primates
#primateart
Macaques represent some of the most complex, unique, social, and diverse monkeys on the planet. This #InternationalMacaqueWeek, read our blog to learn more about these animals, and meet some of the macaques from the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary! www.bornfreeusa.org/2024/05/01/c...
This #InternationalMacaqueWeek, learn about the #macaques at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary, including Japanese macaques, long-tailed macaques, rhesus macaques, and bonnet macaques, as well as other species at the sanctuary like vervets and #baboons! www.bornfreeusa.org/2024/08/29/g...
The week we're all talking about macaques! #internationalmacaqueweek
#InternationalMacaqueWeek starts May 1. You can join in! Macaques are fascinating, clever #primates who deserve a lot better from us than they often get.
#PrimatePeople Please share widely and encourage others to join in! #RespectTheirNature
www.macaquecoalition.com/internationa...
We've got some really cool virtual tours planned for #InternationalMacaqueWeek (May 1-7).
Join my colleagues at JAAN's #primate rescue center! See lion-tailed macaques in the wild! Watch bonnet macaques live in an urban field site!
It's free :)
www.macaquecoalition.com/virtual-tour
