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Macaques are old World monkeys .
They have cheek pouches.
They are slight to heavily built bodies and are shades of brown to black.
Macaques have short tails , no tails and other macaques have long tails.
 They are most widespread primate in the world. Macaques live in Asia ( Afghanistan to china and Japan to Southeast asia. )
including Philippines and Borneo.
One species is Northern Africa and Gibraltar.
There are 46 subspecies total .
There are 22 macaques commonly recognized today.
There are 12 species of macaques given below :
Lion Tailed Macaque
Japanese Macaque
Pig Tailed Macaque
Rhesus Macaque
Slump Tailed Macaque