Shug monkey (SciiFii)

The shug monkey (Boreaemacaca britanica), also known simply as the shug, is a species of macaque, most closely related to the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout the wetlands, forests, and open woodlands across Europe to help boost biodiversity. The shug monkey is a very large member of its family, growing to be up to about 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in length, including its tail, the shoulder height of 1.3 meters (4.2 feet), and weighs about 125 kilograms (275 lbs) on average, making it one of the largest monkeys. The shug monkey resembles a combinations of dog and macaque, and it has black thin fur, gray skin and peach paws. The shug monkeys have claws, which are unlike many of the simian primates, and are used for digging and climbing. As omnivores, shug monkeys are known to feed on fruits, roots, tubers, shoots, bulbs, vegetables, starches, arthropods, fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, birds, eggs, smaller mammals, and carrion, filling the similar ecological niche to the African baboons. Like baboons, the shug monkeys are highly social and very aggressive, being considered bad tempered and are known to fight off many of the predators such as dogs, big cats, and many others, and can even fight other unrelated troops for food and territory. The conservation status of the shug monkey is Near Threatened due to some habitat loss and persecution by many superstitious people (due to many people's fears such as their beliefs that looking into the shug monkey's eyes causing death), however, thanks to the conservationists, the shug monkeys are a protected species and the zoologists have been teaching the people that shug monkeys are not supernatural and are just large, omnivorous species of monkeys.
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