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In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there was such a passage: "In the south, there are gan giants, long arms on the face, black bodies with hair, anti-heels, seeing people laughing and laughing, lips covering their faces, because they are fleeing" Translated into the meaning of modernization, in the south there is a strange giant, with a human face, long arms, long ankles, with a strong ability to imitate, its mouth is very large, very afraid of people.
It sounds like a monster, but the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" itself was a mythological miscellaneous painting describing all kinds of strange things in ancient China. Therefore, most people will think that the monsters described in the book do not exist.
But in fact, according to the research of modern biologists, many of the creatures in the book are not non-existent, but the ancients modified it in an exaggerated way, such as the strange giant we mentioned above.
Some people think that the strange giant is likely to be the image of the mountain fish by the ancients. Most people are presumably very unfamiliar with the mountain fish, and have never even heard of the name. In fact, in the folk, there has always been a saying, rather than touch the mountain fish with the jackal, today we will understand what kind of creature the mountain fish is.
The mountain fish, its scientific name, belongs to a primate. Many places prefer to call it a ghost baboon, and as for why it is so named, it is because of the strange appearance of the mountain fish.
The mountain fish, currently the largest monkey in the world, has an extremely strong body. Adult mountain fish can reach between sixty and eighty centimeters in height. Standing up can even reach more than a meter. It also weighs the heaviest of all monkey families, reaching about fifty-four kilograms. Such a huge size, looking like a person in the distance in the woods.
In fact, the most significant feature of the mountain fish is its face, unlike other monkeys, its face and butt are very brightly colored. From the appearance point of view, the bridge of the nose and the part of the lips of the mountain fish show a more obvious bright red shape.
On either side of the bridge of the nose, there are two longitudinally arranged blue ridge-like bumps, and a small yellow goatee is left at the chin position. There are very few animal faces in nature that can gather so many colors, and it is still this more vivid color. In addition, the buttocks of the mountain fish basically show a color similar to the structure of the face.
Because of the cold look of this color, it is very similar to some tribes living in primeval forests. The body is covered with a variety of graffiti with oxygen-permeating colors, often giving people an extremely eerie feeling. Even for those who don't know about this animal, this is simply a legendary ghost.
It is currently mainly distributed in the humid rainforests of central and western Africa, as well as In Southeast Asia such as Thailand and Vietnam. The mainland's native mountain fish is now very rare and is basically in a state of extinction. Across the world, the mountain bass has also been added to the Red List of Endangered Wildlife by the United Nations.
As the largest monkey on the planet, the mountain fish personality can definitely be called the most ferocious of the monkeys, and it is almost impossible to be tamed by humans. Males, in particular, are very grumpy. And moody, fierce and aggressive, with great strength, always want to go head-to-head with people when there is nothing to do. Therefore, if you encounter this animal in the wild, how far away you will escape or how far you will escape.