Talk:Heck's macaque

Killer Dolphins[edit]

I have posted a long comment in the Talk section of the main Macaque genus article, about the renaming of all the macaque species articles to "[Name] Macaque" (e.g. "Barbary Macaque") from their traditionally names (e.g. Barbary Ape).

Would you please take a look at that here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macaque#Killer_Dolphins

And then correct this individual species article as necessary — I'm not sure which macaque species may have actually been called "[Name] Macaque" traditionally.

(And I hope you can see that the fact that I don't know that, after reading a Wikipedia article about the species, is why rewriting reality in Wikipedia is a problem.)

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.180.30.135 (talk) 12:20, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This photo is not of a Heck's macaque. It looks far more like a Crested macaque with the black fur tinged brown through overexposure which is not a surprise as its filename "Macaque à crête.jpg" is French for "Crested macaque". The Heck's macaque is closer to the Tonkean macaque in appearance than the Crested macaque. Other stock photographs of the same Crested macaques at the same Pairi Daiza zoo misidentify them as Tonkean macaques. The zoo's own website calls them Crested macaques. The French wikipedia entry for Heck's macaque is confused and also erroneously describes Heck's macaques as Crested ("crête") macaques which led to the author of this photograph misidentifying them as being crested heck's macaques in this video.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.50.12 (talk) 15:42, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]