Source: Qilu Evening News
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A field investigation team in Zhejiang is in Daoshi Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou
In the course of conducting a mammal survey,
Recorded via video imagery
National Grade II Primate Protected Animals ——
Tibetan chief monkey (Macaca thibetana),
After verification, there are 3 large and 2 small, a total of 5,
Belongs to the same family group.
Tibetan Chief Monkey
It is the most powerful monkey distributed in China,
The combat power can be called the monkey world "Sun Wukong",
Even the people in a few places call it "chimpanzee".
△ Tibetan chief monkey (Macaca thibetana) archival data photo, zhejiang provincial forest resources monitoring center Zhou Jiajun photo
Adult male Tibetan chief monkey
Will grow long hairs that are very pronounced like beards,
It looks like an old monkey.
But in fact, such a monkey may be in their prime,
And has a good attack ability.
Although the Tibetan chief monkey has a "Tibetan" character in its name, it does not actually live in Tibet. Their main living and breeding areas are concentrated in the central and southern regions of China, west to Sichuan, north to the south of the Qinling Mountains, south to the South Ridge of Guangdong, is a wide range but limited number of primates.
Adult Tibetan monkeys can reach a length of more than 70 centimeters and weigh about 35 pounds. The Tibetan chief monkey has a short tail, only about seven centimeters, so it has the alias of "short-tailed monkey", or "broken-tailed monkey".
Tibetan chief monkey is endemic to China, due to the continuous expansion of human life boundaries, the living area of Tibetan chief monkey is shrinking day by day, many areas that were distributed in China's history are now becoming less and less numerous, and some areas have even disappeared. According to incomplete data collation, the number of counties in the country can be thousands, the general county is only a few groups, about one or two hundred, and the few counties are only a few dozen. According to this, the national population of Tibetan chief monkeys is estimated to be around 10,000.