Talk:Macaque

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the picture of the poor monkey slouched over himself in a cage is the saddest thing i've seen all day. get rid of that picture, it makes you seem insensitive - 80.58.35.46

The picture illustrates the cruel conditions that primates are held in for vivisection research. - UtherSRG 15:11, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] This page is about to get a lot more traffic.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4125006.html Mathiastck 14:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

""This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. ... He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great," Allen said to appreciative laughter.

Doubtless no one present knew what "macaca" meant, but subsequently, those three syllables have caused a tectonic shift in the political plates. Literally, it's the name of a monkey common to North Africa and Asia; figuratively, it's a racial slur in some parts of the world.

And in the United States, effective last Friday, it's an eponym for "major political boo-boo."" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4125006.html Mathiastck 14:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)


I placed the Washington Post story in the external links. While the article is about a monkey, the term is used as a slur, as demonstrated by Senator George Allen's usage. Chriscarlos

And I'll be removing it again. There's an article for the racial slur. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] talk about macaques

I'm sorry if I don't understand the established institutions here, but why was the irrelevant discussion about racial slurs deleted from the talk page, but not the irrelevant discussion of vivisection? Is there a point after which it is acceptable to delete old stuff from a discussion page?

I've reverted the reversion so that people can see what I'm talking about, but don't mind if someone deletes this whole conversation, esp. if they tell me where it should be happening. --Jaibe 22:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

The "Natasha (monkey) — a macaque who began walking on her hind legs after a stroke." doesn't match the information in the link it points to. The Natasha article says that the monkey suffered a stomach flu, not a stroke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.110.32.5 (talk) 20:42, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

How do you say "Macaque"? Aaadddaaammm 07:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I say "Mahcack". - UtherSRG (talk) 10:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I say "Macack" (short a in both syllables), and so do the people I work with, but I've no idea whether we're right. I think the Latin version (Macaca) would be pretty universally pronounced with short "a"s, and I guess we just take that over into English. seglea 22:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
On a WildBoyz episode Steve-O pronounces it "Mah'cock" - whether or not he changed the pronounciation for the sake of humour is unknown to me, but that's the pronounciation I'm using. Baribeau 22:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Material removed to species pages

There's some clutter on this page which belongs on individual species pages (if it belongs at all), and I'm shifting it. It includes:

  • Results of a research shows that male Crab-eating Macaques will groom females in order to get sex. The study found that a female has a greater likelihood to engage in sexual activity with a male if he had recently groomed her, compared to males who had not groomed her.[1]
  • See also:
    • Britches (monkey) - an infant macaque used in sight-deprivation experiments who was removed from the laboratory by the Animal Liberation Front.
    • Nafovanny — the largest captive-breeding non-human primate facility in the world, housing 30,000 long-tailed macaques.
    • Natasha (monkey) — a macaque who began walking on her hind legs after a stroke.


seglea (talk) 11:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)