BLACK APE

black ape, a sooty, black, short-tailed, and long-faced representative of the macaques, inhabiting the island of celebes, and generally regarded as forming a genus by itself, under the name of _cynopithecus niger_, but sometimes relegated to the rank of a subgenus of _macacus_. the nostrils open obliquely at some distance from the end of the snout, and the head carries a crest of long hair. there are several local races, one of which was long regarded as a separate species under the name of the moor macaque, _macacus maurus_. (see primates.)