TIRUPPUR: Several bonnet macaques have fallen ill at the foothills ... Forest department staff collected blood sample from a monkey and sent it to TANUVAS, Chennai, for test.

But monkeys are not the only species facing an ... where over three decades of monitoring of bonnet macaques has revealed ...

such as the bonnet macaque, which remain protected. They have said weakened protections have led to rising cases of monkeys being trafficked for social-media exploitation, used for entertainment ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...