How to Use macaque in a Sentence

macaque

noun
  • How did the macaques make it out?
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Since then, the rhesus macaques have thrived.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Punch was abandoned by his mother at birth, which is rare for macaques.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In some cases, the macaques also bit the deer or pulled on their antlers.
    — Noëlle Gunst, National Geographic, 16 Dec. 2017
  • An adult macaque’s intestines can be over a dozen feet long, and weigh a good deal more than a ball of yarn.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Young male macaques have been seen clinging to female deer and trying to mate with them.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The only thing that mattered was how many friends the macaque had made through grooming.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • The macaques were secured by three gates, each fastened by two sets of locks and latches.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The keepers can't wait for Hoosiers to meet the macaques and see their playful side.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
  • Now, the macaques dress in diapers, walk on stilts play air hockey with passers-by.
    — National Geographic, 27 Feb. 2020
  • This photo offers a rare glimpse of the swimming movement of a male macaque.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The macaques are fairly self-sufficient and the keepers rarely get close to them.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • Old World monkeys like macaques have equal parts eccrine and apocrine glands.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears.
    — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Still, contracting the virus is rare, even among people exposed to macaques.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The whole global population of macaques wouldn't stand much more chance.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Punch's mother abandoned him at birth, a rare occurrence for macaques.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • Punch's mother abandoned him at birth, a rare occurrence for macaques.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The biorhythm lasts for one day in rats; four days in macaques; five days in sheep; and six to 12 days in humans.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Pete, 17, strolls past with his pet macaque clinging to his shoulders.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Ahh, to be a Japanese macaque soaking in your own private hot tub.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • But the macaques still had high levels of virus replicating in their upper airways.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 May 2020
  • Luncz set up camera traps and recorded the macaques breaking open palm nuts (see video, above) with hammer stones.
    — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The workers themselves could also be rough, using metal nets to slam macaques on the ground.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But to a macaque's brain cells, says a group of researchers, the images are fascinating.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
  • In July, a macaque injured its finger by placing it in a small hole that was part of its cage.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Lopburi has long been known for its large population of free-roaming macaques.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Zookeepers nursed him and gave him the toy to train him to cling, an ability newborn macaques need to survive.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Gibraltarian macaques are eating dirt to help digest junk food.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • In less than 40 years, the crested black macaque has declined here by over 80 percent.
    — Becca Cudmore, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017

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