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A prominent feature of the macaque monkeys in the presence of cheek pouches in which these primates temporarily store food. Offer them their favorite food and they simply stuff all that they can in these cheek pouches which can puff up on the sides. The food will be digested later. Most macaques obtain a good amount of their food on the ground gleaning for fruits, insects, leaves, shoots, and more. Even spiders are welcome on the swelling menu of these ever-curious monkeys. Most macaques are sort of squat and thickset in build. Macaques have been variously regarded to be the hardiest of all monkeys. There are half a dozen species of macaques in the Indian region. While four of these (lion-tailed, pig-tailed, stump-tailed, and Assamese) have restricted distributional ranges, the first in the Nilgiri mountains of South India and the latter three in the northeast, the Rhesus and Bonnet are widespread. Rhesus monkey, with the human blood factor named after it, is the animal that was once exported in large numbers for medical research, especially for testing newly developed drugs, including the development of the Salk vaccine against poliomyelitis. The common monkey of North India, the Rhesus, can be easily recognized by a prominent patch of reddish-orange fur in its loins and rump. Ascending up to almost 9,000 feet in the Himalayas, it is found down south, at the Godavari river, and is possibly slowly increasing its range. Small numbers occur in Mumbai’s Borivali National Park, often mixing along with a troop of Bonnets and Langurs. The Bonnet has a longer tail and lacks the reddish-orange patch on its hindquarters (buttocks). But a centrally parted Bonnet of dark, longest hair radiating from the force-drown gives this its common name. This is the common monkey of peninsular and southern India, found south of the Godavari river. It is seen frequently in Mumbai’s National Park. This is the animal that also gives you company on Elephanta Island at Khandala, Mather, and at a host of other tourist spots of Southern India. It is, I find only slightly less of a temple monkey that the Rhesus is over much of North India, where a curious blend of religious and sentimental reasons just manages to prevent it from getting molested and persecuted. 

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Where are the common monkeys found?

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    South of the Godavari River
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    Mumbai’s National Park
  • 3
    Elephanta Island Khandala
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    None of these
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Answer : 1. "South of the Godavari River"

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