Recently, a monkey with a boxy Chinese character face and a "plate inch" hairstyle in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, has caught fire on the Internet.
Today's monkeys not only look like people, but some monkeys use tools, is it that after waiting for so many years, monkeys are finally going to evolve into adults?
Black hat hanging monkey
Because the appearance is so peculiar, some people even think that this is a monkey synthesized by software, and even some people think that it is a monkey pretended to be a human.
But in fact, this monkey itself looks like this.
This square-faced monkey is called the "Black Hat Hanging Monkey", and its home is located in a humid tropical rainforest at an altitude of 2700 meters.
They can be found from Colombia and Venezuela in the east of the Andes to Paraguay and northern Argentina in the south.
They are primates that are extremely widespread in the tropical and 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.
Panamanian monkeys
The black-faced hanging monkey just looks like a human, and the panama monkey's performance is even more shocking.
In 2018, bioRxiv magazine published an article about scientists at the Smithsonian Institute for Tropical Research in Panama who found a herd of Panamanian monkeys on a remote desert island.
They use stones as tools to smash the hard shells of nuts, crabs, snails and shellfish to eat nutritious food inside; they use sticks, stones, etc. to drive away rabbits and snakes; and when monkeys are injured, they know to apply the sap of a certain plant to the body.
A German scientific research team has also conducted continuous follow-up studies on the Panamanian monkey population, and found that they do not simply use stone tools, but will consciously make stone tools, they will deliberately select stones with suitable hardness, through grinding or wrestling, etc., so that the stones are more in line with the appearance of stone hammers, stone axes and cutting tools.
And these tools are not disposable for monkeys, they will be used up and collected in different categories, both to avoid being found and stolen by their companions and to facilitate their own next use.
Will monkeys evolve into adults?
First of all, let's say that the Internet celebrity "Little Square Monkey".
Scientists say the black-hat monkey is not so close to humans in primates, and belongs to the second level of evolution, it belongs to the New World Monkey, and there are Old World monkeys (such as golden monkeys, macaques), small apes (such as gibbons) and large apes (such as chimpanzees) that are closer to humans than it is.
Biologically, from facial morphology to behavioral characteristics, chimpanzees are more similar to humans. Will chimpanzees evolve into adults?
Arguably almost unlikely.
Evolution does not have a fixed path, it is not like upgrading and fighting monsters, as long as you accumulate enough experience, you can improve into the desired form.
The evolution of living things is uncontrollable, which is the result of natural selection of organisms under a wide variety of environmental conditions. And evolving into humans isn't necessarily their only option.
Even if they choose the goal of evolving into adults, it can't happen overnight. The evolution of human beings from australopithecus to modern humans has gone through about 3 million years, and then evolved into civilization, which is a matter of thousands of years.