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The golden snub-nosed monkey is endangered due to habitat loss. For instance, lichens are the main staple of the monkey's diet and dead trees have the greatest lichen coverage. Unfortunately, dead trees are harvested, thus reducing the quality of the habitat and availability of food.
The golden [2] and black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys [3] are both endangered species, while the other three species are critically endangered. [4] [5] [6] Golden snub-nosed monkey communities with large populations have high genetic diversity, but also show higher levels of recent inbreeding than other snub-nosed monkeys. [7]
The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs. Some classifications split the colobine monkeys into two tribes, while others split them into three groups.
Gray snub-nosed monkey. R. brelichi Thomas, 1903: Central China: Size: 64–73 cm (25–29 in) long, plus 70–97 cm (28–38 in) tail [229] Habitat: Forest [230] Diet: Leaves, buds, fruit, seeds and bark, as well as insect larvae [229] CR 200 [230] Myanmar snub-nosed monkey. R. strykeri Geissmann et al., 2010: Northern Myanmar
Several Old World monkeys have anatomical oddities. For example, the colobus monkeys have stubs for thumbs to assist with their arboreal movement, the proboscis monkey has an extraordinary nose, while the snub-nosed monkeys have almost no nose at all. The penis of the male mandrill is crimson and the scrotum is lilac; the face is also brightly ...
There is an endangered primate in the remote mountains of China called a snub-nosed golden monkey. Along with various tarsiers and lemurs, these monkeys were the main inspiration for my initial ...
Black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys. The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), [3] [4] also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, [5] is a large black and white primate that lives only in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, [6] where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan golden hair monkey (Chinese: 滇金丝猴) and the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey ...
Teddy's devious smile is the best! I always get a kick out of @A Guy and a Golden's pranks and love watching their videos. Although the video was just posted yesterday, it already has nearly 72 ...