Old World Monkey, Toque Macaque, රිළවා
The infants are born into their social classes based on their mothers position in the troop.
The toque macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa  "rillow" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The social status is highly structured in toque macaques, where there prevails dominance hierarchies among both males and females.
The lifespan of toque macaques in the wild is about the same as in captivity.
They eat any good thing making use of human detritus by going after plantains, pineapples, rice grains, papaws, and mangoes.
Toque macaques enjoy to take any food with little effort around human dwellings. They are occasionally seen around houses near a forest patch, where they invade all the fruiting plants in the day sessions and return to the forest cover in night.

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