Look at this standard Chinese character generous face, two cheeks thick beard, and those pair of innocent eyes looking around, full of confusion, I don't know which alien species I thought this was!
Looking at this picture, some people say that it looks like Grandpa Cow in "Big Ears Tutu", some people say that it bumps into the face of Ukrainian Prime Minister Kirilenko, and more people suspect that it is PS. However, this monkey is a real creature on Earth.
The appearance is gratifying
On May 14, Ms. Yang of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, saw this monkey by chance when she was visiting the zoo, and she felt that its appearance was pleasing, so she recorded it with her mobile phone.
Tourists who see this monkey for the first time can hardly not be laughed at by its appearance. This big Face of Chinese Characters, square, just like a brick growing on the neck, the face looks square and can endure, this still has a big back, the face is still full of beard, the serious monkey who has such a look.
Not to mention you, even the first experts to discover them, if they had not seen it with their own eyes, would have thought that this was an animal through the retouching software P. Everyone is busy taking pictures of it at the same time, but surprised to find that the appearance of this monkey can actually be through the mobile phone's face recognition system, this look is really a sigh of the world, there is no wonder ah!
Strangers from afar
In fact, this animal is a serious monkey, because they have a thick black hair on the top of their head, which looks like they are wearing a black hat, so they are also called black hat hanging monkeys. They are not native to the continent, but "guests" from as far away as South America. As early as 2008, the Tianjin Zoo, the black hat hanging monkey was popular once because of its peculiar appearance, and at that time, it also attracted countless tourists to see the "Fang" appearance.
The home of the black-hat monkey, located in the humid tropical rainforest at an altitude of 2700 meters, can be found in Colombia and Venezuela in the east of the Andes to Paraguay and northern Argentina in the south, and they are primates that are widely distributed in the tropical subtropical regions of South America, especially in the Amazon.
Black-hated monkeys are omnivores whose main diet consists of fruits, seeds and insects. Their body length is generally about 35 to 50 centimeters, and the strong tail is actually 40 centimeters long, which is almost as long as the body. With their tails, they can hang themselves upside down from trees while gathering food, freeing themselves up to outperform other monkeys in terms of speed and efficiency.
Smart and good at using tools
Although the appearance is not high, in fact, the black hat hanging monkey is a very intelligent animal. Take the black-hat hanging monkeys of the Hangzhou Zoo, one summer, the weather was hot, and the keeper took a bottle of frozen fruit from the refrigerator and put it in the sun, ready to thaw and then feed it to the monkeys.
However, at this time, the Monkey King could not sit still. Fruit ice is its favorite! There are not only sliced watermelons, but also grapes, bananas, watermelons, pears, and even sweet honey, which is a fatal temptation for the black hat monkey!
The Monkey King touched the fruit ice, huh? How is it so hard! It doesn't matter if it's hard, after all, in the wild, a lot of nuts are much harder than this bottle. Let's open it using the original method that the black hat hanging monkey has been passed down from generation to generation, find a stone as a tool, and smash it repeatedly. Oh, there are really no stones around here, get it, take the wooden board instead! Thinking of this, the Monkey King grabbed the bottle and smashed it on the board. As a result, the bottle of fruit ice was fine, but the wooden board was smashed up and down, and in the end there was nothing.
It seems that this hard smashing does not work, you have to think of other tricks, take the teeth to bite, right? No, it's too hard to bite. What to do? At this time, the clever monkey king suddenly noticed the temperature of the bottle, and his mind began to fly. Suddenly it grasped the bottle with both hands and rubbed it repeatedly on the board.
After a while, the heat generated by the friction in the bottle melted, and naturally it was not so strong. With almost no effort, the Monkey King took a small bite and successfully sucked in the fruit inside.
Hierarchical social structure
This monkey king is indeed too clever, but the monkey king has worked so hard, why don't these other monkeys come to help? Can't really help. This is because the Black Hat Hanging Monkey Tribe has a rule that when food is discovered, it is enjoyed by the highest-ranking leader alone, and then shared with the entire group. When encountering a problem that the monkey group cannot solve, it is necessary for the boss to solve it. From this point of view, being the monkey king in this black hat hanging monkey really has to have some skills.
In the social system of the black hat hanging monkey, in addition to the class society, there is also the inferiority of men and women. The leaders are all male monkeys, and the status of female monkeys is always lower. The most typical example is that a keeper once put a box full of nuts in the center of the monkey group, and a group of male monkeys tried for half a day and returned without success. A female monkey went up, three times five divided by two opened the mechanism, after getting the nuts, everyone should have shared a piece to eat. The female monkey did not, because it knew its status, so she could only silently retreat and let the monkey king and the male monkey eat first.
Awakened self-awareness
Some people see that it should be said here, since the black hat hanging monkey has such a clever mind and a strict hierarchy, does it mean that they have full self-awareness? Will this eventually lead them to evolve into humans, or even to evolve intelligent creatures of a higher level than us?
This is really worth looking into. The reason why human society can form groups, tribes and even entire countries comes from our self-awareness. A clear social division of labor can ensure the normal operation of our society, and in any organization, there must be managers, senior talents, and more are workers who silently contribute to the organization.
This is also true in the gregarious life of the black hat hanging monkey. So it is not unreasonable for the black hat monkey to be self-aware.
The evolutionary journey of the future
As for whether the black hat hanging monkey can evolve to humans, or even more advanced species, this is a question worth discussing in depth. Because the most fundamental difference between humans and animals is that people use tools. However, paleontologists in London have found that the history of capuchin monkeys such as the black-hat monkey can even be traced back to 3,000 years ago, and their tools have been changed over several generations, from the earliest large stone tools to the current smaller stone tools, and even according to different foods, using different sizes of stones, which is not the same as the early stone age of human beings?
It seems that this group of monkeys is really going to evolve into humans?
That being said, if the black hat monkey wants to truly evolve into a human, it is estimated that it will take a very long process. First of all, people can walk upright, which is an important feature of human body structure and characteristics that are obviously different from apes. As a result of walking upright, humans evolved flexible hands that could be used to make tools and perform complex creative labor. Although the black hat hanging monkey can also use its upper limbs to do a lot of things, it is overstretched compared to the flexible hands of humans.
So, to evolve to the level of humans, they will take at least millions of years to achieve.
What's more, as an ancient species that has long existed on the earth, their genetic code has basically been solidified, and it is unlikely that too much of a range of changes can occur. The evolutionary direction of organisms is uncontrollable, which is the result of natural selection of organisms under various environmental conditions. Just like dinosaurs, who dominated the earth for 160 million years, there is no such thing as a highly intelligent creature like a dinosaur man. Of course, the black hat hanging monkey gave it 160 million years to evolve, and no one can say what the future will evolve into, there are too many uncertainties.
However, a harsh reality shows that the black hat monkey is likely to eventually fail to evolve into a highly intelligent creature. This is because we are gradually destroying the environment in which the black hat monkeys live, and perhaps they have disappeared from this earth before they have evolved into humans.