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Despite the scene of macaque monkey raping a cat witnessed by one of the authors here, Indonesian long-tailed macaques were observed for catching fishes along the rivers by researchers from The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust.  The findings of fishing macaques was published in last month’s International Journal of Primatology.  Researchers said the phenomenon showed that monkeys changed its food source to fish in order to adapt the changing environment.  Long-tailed macaques were not the only monkey species observed for fishing.  The fishing behaviour was also found in Japanese macaques, chacma baboons, olive baboons, chimpanzees and orangutans.  Other scientists doubt the observations were only isolated events.

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Youzi witnessed macaque raped a cat (poor cat). The monkey must be desperate. Today I read this piece of news revealing why monkeys shout during sex.

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.

Without these yells, male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) almost never ejaculated, scientists found.

I guess maybe the macaque youzi saw just need cats’ high pitch miaws to help it to reach the climax.

Research also revealed that female monkey only shouts when they’re at the most fertile stage.

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Went to Batu Caves this morning for photo shooting, found a lots of playful long-tailed macaques. I tried to get closer to them to get a better shoot, found that they are quite approachable, not afraid of humans.

Caught this funny scene accidentally, lol!

but thanks god, the pity cat got to ran away.
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