In the wild, lion-tailed macaques live in tropical dry forest and tropical rainforest in India. They spend most of their time high up in the trees of the dense, wet forests.

Where is lion-tailed macaque found?

The lion-tailed macaque, Macaca silenus (Linnaeus, 1758), is endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India, and is Endangered (Kumar et al. 2008). It is a habitat specialist, restricted to the evergreen forests of the Ghats (Singh et al. 1997).

Is Lion-tailed macaque found only in India?

In the wild, lion-tailed macaques are only native to India. There, they live in the Western Ghats hills and mountains of southwestern India, where they live in tropical rainforests and on elevated mountainsides.