Golden monkey belongs to the Colobinae of primates, because of the nose upward; in science we call it snub-nosed monkey. Leaf is the main food. Why we call snub-nosed monkey as golden monkey? Because the first discovered snub-nosed monkey lived in Si Chuan, Shan Xi and Gan Su of China, these monkeys have golden hair all over the body, so we call them golden monkey. While with the discover of the same kind of monkeys in Gui Zhou and Yun Nan, although their hair are black or gray, we still call them golden monkeys.
Golden monkey lives above 2000-meter attitude, and the air is much more thinner than the air other kinds of monkeys lives, the shorter the nose beam is, the easier to breathe. During the billions years of evolution, the nose beam of golden monkey had been degrading gradually, and finally disappeared. The shape of animal has close relationship with its living environment; the animal depends on the environment and is limited by the environment.
At present, there are 17 male golden monkeys and 10 female monkeys in golden monkey house, among them 19 were reproduced from 1997. The semi- sporadic breeding here is the first in China, so you cannot see cages here and just the playing monkeys, so it will give you a fresh feeling. Also this kind of breeding and environment stimulates the wild living condition, so the habit of golden monkeys will show exhaustively in front of visitors. The basic two units of wild golden money in SWAP are ˇ°family groupˇ± and ˇ°all male groupˇ±, they are the epitome of wild golden monkey living, so the golden monkeys here have very valuable research value.
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