kran.
/krɑː/, U.S. /krɑ/ The long-tailed or crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis (= M. irus), native to southern and south-eastern Asia.
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pigtailed monkey1758
pigtail1774
kra1822
pigtailed baboon1824
pig-tailed macaque1840
round-faced monkey1864
pigtail macaque1867
1822 T. S. Raffles in Trans. Linn. Soc. 13 247 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.
1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 432 Of the genus Semnopithecus are..the Lotong,..the Kra, or Simia fascicularis.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 472/2 The lotong, kra, and at least twenty other kinds of monkey.
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes ix. 143 No periodicity has been noted in the rarely observed sexual response of bonnet monkeys and adult female kra monkeys (common macaques).
1969 Ld. Medway Wild Mammals Malaya 50/2 Long-tailed or Crab-eating Macaque. Kera. Macaca fascicularis.
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