Macaque and Rhesus

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Macaque noun - Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa.

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Rhesus and macaque are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Rhesus" with "Macaque", this nouns are similar.

Rhesus noun - Of southern Asia; used in medical research.

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Macaque and rhesus are semantically related. You can use "Macaque" instead a noun "Rhesus".

It's really odd that they chose a number of more exotic-looking monkey species that while Indian, don't occur in this area at all, while omitting the rhesus macaque, which is found in central India.

Source: Misplaced Wildlife
The baboon reference may also have been Macacus rhesus (the Rhesus Macaque) which has very occasionally been called the "Indian baboon" in English (even though it's not a baboon at all).

Source: Misplaced Wildlife

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