---
title: "Lion-tailed Macaque"
description: "Macaca silenus — Mammals. The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), locally called wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/lion-tailed-macaque
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Lion-tailed Macaque

> Macaca silenus — Mammals. The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), locally called wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

- Scientific name: *Macaca silenus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 575
- Wikidata: [Q506518](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506518)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43446](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43446)

## Names

- en: Lion-tailed Macaque
- de: Bartaffe
- es: Macaca Leonina
- fr: Macaque Ouandérou
- nl: Wanderoe
- pl: Makak lwi

## Countries with the most observations

IN (409)

## Summary

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), locally called wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-tailed_macaque

## Photo

![Lion-tailed Macaque](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lion-tailed-macaque/medium.jpg)

Photo: citi2024 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339270868

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lion-tailed-macaque?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).