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kra|krɑː| Also kera. [Mal. kera.] The long-tailed or crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis (= M. irus), native to southern and south-eastern Asia.
1821T. S. Raffles in Trans. Linnean Soc. XIII. 247 The Malay name has frequently a close resemblance to the cry of the animal it designates; and this is remarkably the case in the present instance... The Kra is not easily domesticated. 1839T. J. Newbold Pol. & Statistical Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 432 Of the genus Semnopithecus are..the Lotong,..the Kra, or Simia fascicularis. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 472/2 The lotong, kra, and at least twenty other kinds of monkey. 1932S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys ix. 143 No periodicity has been noted in the rarely observed sexual response of bonnet monkeys and adult female kra monkeys (common macaques). 1969Ld. Medway Wild Mammals Malaya 50/2 Long-tailed or Crab-eating Macaque. Kera. Macaca fascicularis. |