The golden snub-nosed monkey, also known as the snub-nosed monkey, inhabits the high-altitude area of 2000-3000 meters. Because the current number is relatively rare, the golden snub-nosed monkey has become a rare animal unique to China. Since the earliest snub-nosed monkeys discovered in the world live in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places in China, they have the habit of vertical migration, live in groups, have rich community behaviors, and have a variety of shouts. They live in a hidden environment and are not easy to be found. There are five species of animals in this genus: Sichuan snub-nosed monkey, Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, Guizhou snub-nosed monkey, Vietnamese snub-nosed monkey, and Burmese snub-nosed monkey, all of which are distributed in Asia. Due to habitat destruction and hunting, the numbers are all rare, and they are all endangered, rare and protected animals.
1. Morphological characteristics of golden snub-nosed monkeys
There are 5 species in the genus of snub-nosed monkeys, with body length ranging from 51 cm to 83 cm, nostrils almost parallel to the face, protruding snout and thick lips. The jaws are thick and the back has shiny long hair. The face is blue, generally gray-black on the top of the head, neck, shoulders, upper arms, back and tail, and brownish yellow on the head, neck, body sides and inside of the limbs. Different species have different coat colors. The golden snub-nosed monkey in Sichuan is golden, the golden snub-nosed monkey in Guizhou and Yunnan are black and gray, and the golden snub-nosed monkey in Myanmar is black and soft. So how much is a golden monkey?
2. How much is a golden monkey
All genera of golden monkeys are cherished and protected animals, and there is no market. Such species can only rely on Smuggling requires a lot of risk. You can imagine how much a golden monkey costs. As we all know, smuggling is illegal, so friends who like it should know about it. In addition, because golden monkeys are national-level protected animals, personal breeding is illegal. And this kind of monkey is also very demanding on the feeding environment. Golden snub-nosed monkeys mainly live in trees, and they also look for food on the ground. Feeds on wild fruits, buds, bamboo shoots, and bryophytes. The staple food is leaves, twigs, flowers, fruits, but also bark and roots, and loves insects, birds and bird eggs.
3. Living environment of golden snub-nosed monkeys
Golden snub-nosed monkeys are typical forest arboreal animals and live in forests at an altitude of 1500-3300m all year round. Its vegetation type and vertical distribution zone belong to four types of vegetation: subtropical mountain evergreen, deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest, subtropical deciduous broad-leaved forest and evergreen coniferous forest, and secondary coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest. , they do not migrate horizontally, but only move vertically in their habitat. Golden monkeys also live in groups and have rich social behaviors. Each large group is based on a small family group as its activity unit. The largest group can reach more than 600 individuals. This group is rare.
