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crested black macaques. These primates, too, have made it across Wallace's
Line, perhaps like the tarsiers carried by trees uprooted in storms.
The younger macaques leaped from overhanging trees into the stream
and played tag in the shallows, scattering great clouds of spray. They frol-
icked under the fi rm yellow gaze of the troop's patriarch.
These macaques are among the most prominent of the handful of pla-
cental animals, mostly small insectivores and bats, that have managed to
Figure 46
A male crested black macaque,
Macaca nigra
, another placental escapee
across Wallace's Line, intently watches his playful troop in Tangkoko Park. This species of
macaque is endemic to Sulawesi.
