Let's talk about the dim sum first, yesterday's news - #7 people hunting and killing colored ibises were taken criminal compulsory measures # gave me a great touch, always feel that the effect of animal science popularization is not good, plan to open a new series, the "National Key Protected Animals: First-class Species" series to make, the content done in front may be a little far from everyone's life, plus this kind of science is almost no one to see, so it is still planned to start from the creatures around the creation acceptance may be a little higher, At the same time, when popularizing science, I also do a little publicity for popularizing the law as much as possible.
Before doing it, I looked at the list of the list, well, very long [tears], it is estimated that there is no year and a half can not be done [cover your face], last night I wanted to name this series "Can't Touch", I thought about it for a while, I don't do the title party this time, I really don't like to write those titles that look hot every time in order to meet the rules. Later, I will continue to try to adjust the style of writing, and then update it two days a day, write a copywriter a day and make a video. If you have to move bricks during the day, if you feel that the time is too fast to do articles and videos at the same time, so that you can polish the content with a little more time.
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Wild Animals
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1: This Law is formulated so as to protect wild animals, save rare and endangered wild animals, maintain biodiversity and ecological balance, and advance the construction of ecological civilization.
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National Key Protected Animals: First-class species
The scientific name of the bee monkey: Nycticebus bengalensis or Bengal Slow Loris
Chinese the Bengal slow loris or northern loris, it is mainly distributed in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, northeast India, Laos, Myanmar and northern Vietnam, and has a larger geographical range than any other slow loris species. Previously considered a subspecies of other slow lorises, it was not established as a separate species until 2001.
Bee monkeys are 26 to 38 cm long from head to tail and weigh between 1 and 2.1 kg, with hands and feet that are particularly suitable for climbing. Like other slow lorises, their physical features can be highly summarized in fifteen words: wet nose, round head, flat face, big eyes, small ears, and because they don't jump and don't use their tails to maintain balance, the tail is almost completely degenerated. The body is 34-38 cm long and weighs 1-2.1 kg as an adult.
The fur of the lorises is dense as wool, the dorsal hair is light brown, and the ventral fur is much lighter. The face is milky white, with triangular dark fur around the eyes, dark stripes occasionally form a fork to connect to the middle of the head, turn dark brownish black at the shoulders, and continue as the middle extending to the back, the forearms and hands are almost white, and the color of the entire fur varies in shades with seasonal variations. Lorises secrete a pungent, transparent oily toxin (the only poisonous slow langie species) from the odor glands on their arms that can convey information about gender, age, health, and social status through the scent.
The bee monkey is an arboreal nocturnal animal that sleeps during the day by curling up in dense vegetation or tree holes, and almost anything that happens around it cannot wake it up (the origin of the name "slow lorises"). It lives in evergreen and deciduous forests with healthy ecosystems, with its favorite being tropical rainforests with dense canopy trees, and they can occasionally be found in bamboo forests.
It is an important propagator of seeds and pollen in the ecological environment, and because of its slow movement speed (it is said that it takes 12 seconds to take a step), it is also a delicious prey for other animals. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, but also insects, gum, snails and small vertebrates. In winter, it relies on sap, gum, resin, and latex seeping from plants to sustain life.
They would form small groups of families and would mark their territory with urine. They breed every 12-18 months, and the female attracts the male through loud whistles. Usually only one offspring is produced at a time, and the gestation period is 6 months. After the cubs are born, the mother will hold them in her arms at any time for the first three months, and the little ones can be weaned and independent for about 7 months, and enter adulthood around 20 months. Their longest lifespan is 20 years, and 12 years have been recorded in zoos on the mainland.
Bee monkeys, while large in Southeast Asia, are extremely rare in number in each country, and the most serious threats they face are the wildlife trade (traditional medicine and pet trade).
In traditional medicine in Southeast Asia, they are considered to be helpful for women's recovery after childbirth, the treatment of stomach problems, and the healing of wounds and fractures, so much so that they have unfortunately become slag, and Vietnam has also used it as food.
The growing demand for exotic pets in the pet market has also led to rampant poaching and overfishing. In June 2007, it was transferred to CITES Annex I along with all other slow loris species, which prohibits international commercial trade.
Habitats have been severely degraded and reduced, which is also an important reason for the drastic decline in numbers, with primary forest cover decreasing throughout Southeast Asia. Bee monkeys once existed in Yunnan and Guangxi on the mainland, in the 1970s the southern and western tropical forests of Yunnan were largely deforested, secondary forests were seriously degraded, and Yunnan has lost 42% of its forests, and the estimated number of bee monkeys is less than 2,000 or less, and the bee monkeys in Guangxi have almost completely become extinct.
The bee monkey was added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List in 2006 and was again assessed as an endangered species on 23 November 2025. It is also listed as a national key protected animal: a first-class species
We also have a lot of conservation activities for bee monkeys
Strengthen publicity and education, publicize in a targeted manner the truth that there is no scientific basis for the use of bee monkeys in medicine, and stop the resulting poaching and indiscriminate hunting of bee monkeys.
On May 31, 2005, the first artificial breeding of bee monkeys was carried out at the Zoo in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, and the baby bee monkeys born were in good physical condition, but due to the excessive number of visitors, the female monkeys were irritable and did not breastfeed, resulting in death, and after learning the lessons, they were successfully bred again.
Xishuangbanna, Huanglian Mountain, Nan rolling river, Tongbiguan, Weiyuan River, Wuliang Mountain, Ailao Mountain, where there is a distribution of bee monkeys, are divided into nature reserves, and it is estimated that more than 80% of China's bee monkey population is included.
On 12 October 2021, at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, we made a commitment to the world: "Green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains." A good ecological environment is not only natural wealth, but also economic wealth, which is related to the potential and stamina of economic and social development. Accelerate the formation of a green development mode, promote win-win economic development and environmental protection, and build a home for the economy and the environment to advance together. ”
Biodiversity is the foundation for building a community with a shared future for mankind and achieving sustainable development.
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As far as possible, the article will be told in an easy-to-understand way, so that everyone can learn more about biology without leaving home.
At the same time, it also pays attention to how the creatures on the earth survive under the factors of human intervention, destruction of the environment, commercial transactions, excessive consumption and other factors.