Milne-Edwards's macaque lives in mountainous areas of central-eastern China. It can carry food in its cheek pouches and eat later in a safer place.
Its fur is dark brown, and both sexes have facial whiskers. It has a short tail and a brown, rather than red, face.
Tibetan macaques use different places to feed by day and sleep at night. In Huangshan, Anhui, China, researchers followed one wild group of 29 macaques for 12 months and recorded 50 sleeping sites. Of 76 recorded uses, 66 were on cliffs. The sites’ altitude also changed with the seasons.
The group rarely used the same sleeping site on consecutive days, and sleeping-site use increased with the number of nearby foraging patches. In this group, moving sleeping places close to food was linked to how the macaques used feeding areas across the day. The records show how cliffs, forest and foraging patches are used together within a macaque group’s range.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
During a year at Huangshan, one macaque group used 50 sleeping sites; 66 of 76 records were on cliffs. Sites near more foraging patches were used more often, linking resting places with food areas.