When it comes to golden monkeys, do you think of monkeys with golden hair? What kind of monkey does the golden monkey refer to? How many kinds of golden monkeys are there in the world? Do they all have golden body hair? What are the unique golden monkeys in China? What can I see in Sichuan? What is their connection with the characteristics of "Moxigan head "," Chaotian nose "," Singles tribe "," aunt behavior "," currency transaction" and so on?
Before we begin, we first understand the origin of the name Chuanjin monkey. Kawakami (formerly known as the golden monkey), because his zoological taxonomy is different from other primates is the biggest feature of "the nose of the sky ," so he created a new" monkey with the nose ". Gold-clad monkeys were found in Sichuan, where they were renamed "Sichuan Golden Monkey ," or Golden Snub-nosed Monkey., in order to distinguish them from other species of golden monkeys.The question is, in the family of the Monkey, there are several kinds of golden monkeys?
The question is, in the family of the Monkey, there are several kinds of golden monkeys?
The answer is at my feet, you can count.
There are 5 kinds of golden monkeys found all over the world. In addition to the above, there are Yunnan golden monkey, Guizhou golden monkey, Vietnam golden monkey and Myanmar golden monkey. In addition to the strict sense of "golden" monkeys, some of these five kinds of golden monkeys are either golden or not at all, such as the black Myanmar golden monkey, which is like fish-flavored shredded pork without fish. There is no wife in the wife cake, and there is not gold in the golden monkey. In addition, three of the above five species of golden monkey are unique to China. They are Sichuan golden monkey, Yunnan golden monkey and Guizhou golden monkey, except Vietnam golden monkey Outside the north and south, the other four species are distributed in China, while only one species of Sichuan golden monkey is distributed in Sichuan.OK, after a brief introduction to the golden monkey, let's talk about the most impressive Sichuan golden monkey. Sichuan golden monkey is the most widely distributed and the most abundant of the five species, mainly distributed in Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, usually living in 1500-3500 acicular mixed forest and coniferous forest, so what interesting stories about them?
01 Strange
Sichuan golden monkey is characterized by the nose sag, nose significantly up, this may be to reduce respiratory resistance, adapt to high altitude hypoxia environment. In addition, the adult male golden monkey mouth has a tumor-shaped protuberance, the face is sky blue, the head has a deeper golden hair, by the way, Moxigan head is also one of its important signs.
02Complex social structures
The golden monkey society does not have the monkey king like Sun Wukong, but takes the family as the basic unit. A family usually consists of one male monkey, several adult female monkeys and several young monkeys, called OMU Unit, which is polygamous. The only adult male monkey is called parent monkey. In this unit, the status of parent monkey, adult female monkey and young monkey decreases in turn, and multiple families live together to form an ethnic group.
Each group is usually mixed with a full male unit called the AMU (All Male Unit), or "Singles ". The members of the group, made up of frustrated parents and young monkeys who were driven out of their homes at a certain age, had been miserable enough to enter the Singles tribe, but even worse, they had the lowest social rank and often needed to eat some leftovers after the rest of the monkeys had finished eating. But it was gratifying that the monkeys would walk on the edge of each family and fight back as parent monkeys.
As mentioned earlier, the same group consists of multiple polygamous families, so the question is, must each family's parent monkey be the father of the family's young monkey? The answer is not necessarily ha, because although there are different family units, parent monkeys do not have absolute control over their families. Mother monkeys will quietly mate with parents of other families or males of all male units while parents are not paying attention. Similarly, parent monkeys will also wait for the opportunity to mate with mother monkeys of other families. What kind of consequences will this have? According to statistics, more than half of the little monkeys in a family are not descendants of the family's parents.
Like it makes sense
Some one ask, so what is the system, not random? In fact, this behavior can greatly promote gene communication between different families and maintain the genetic diversity of the population, which is a good thing for the continuation of the whole species. In addition, after one family unit's parent monkey was replaced by other male monkeys, it was difficult for the new parent monkey to judge whether the family's young monkey was his own child, so it could prevent the new parent monkey from killing babies. To the family's young monkey played a certain protective role.
Sichuan golden monkey
Aunt
Sichuan golden monkeys usually mate in August ~ October of each year. Pregnancy is usually about half a year. During this period, in addition to being taken care of by their biological mothers, other female monkeys of the same family will also participate in the care. This behavior is called "aunt behavior ". What are the benefits of this behavior? One is to make the baby monkey grow up under the common care of the group and get used to the group life; the other is to let the monkey mother have free time to feed, thus nourishing the weak body after childbirth; the third is to let the female monkey who lacks reproductive experience learn the experience of raising children and lay the foundation for their future fertility; Aunts can get the opportunity to mate with parents and monkeys.
A little monkey wrapped in love
Currency transactions
Of course, not every female monkey has a chance to take care of the monkey. This requires aunts to use such behavior as haircut as "money" and then exchange it with the mother monkey. The value of haircut varies with the number of monkeys in the family.
Honestly ," Tony teacher "is a really good haircut
As a national protected animal, Sichuan Golden Monkey is also facing the threat of habitat destruction. It is hoped that with the continuous improvement of people's awareness of environmental protection and the unremitting efforts of the government and people, the survival of Sichuan Golden Monkey will be better and better.They also need more love.
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