The last issue said that the Huangshan short-tailed monkey (the Huangshan subspecies of the Tibetan chief monkey is too difficult to pronounce, let's still call it the Huangshan short-tailed monkey!) Today, let's talk about their language and habits.
Huangshan short-tailed monkey is the largest macaque monkey in China, the data records that there are more than ten kilograms, several large male monkeys in the Bird Park are obviously more than enough, it is estimated that the robbery tourists on the Huangshan Mountain have been very moist, the heaviest two are only 30kg+, although they are very large, but after all, they are still members of the macaque family, with the typical characteristics of the macaque family ~ cheek sac.
(It's not a tumor, this is a cheek sac full of food)
Cheek pouch (English: cheek pouch), also known as "food sac", the monkey cheek gang of the macaque family has two elastic skin sacs, when the monkey encounters something delicious, it will be temporarily stored there, causing the cheeks to bulge out of two meat balls, other animals, hamsters, chipmunks also have similar structures.
Many times you will find that when you go to visit the monkeys, most of the monkeys are fierce and unfriendly. There are reasons for their mischievous personalities, and some are purely a misunderstanding.
Why is there a misunderstanding? It is that most tourists do not understand the language and memes of monkeys (the language spoken here is mainly body language).
Monkeys are social social animals with relatively high IQs and a wealth of body language that could be written as a tome. Today we will introduce a few relatively simple, enough on the line.
The first kind of provocation: In the monkey world, the expression of staring at each other's eyes and raising their eyebrows is a very serious act of provocation.
(What do you see?) ）
If you stare into the monkey's eyes on the edge of the cage, there is a high probability that you will get a reply to this expression.
This expression is the second body language , intimidation. (So many tourists wonder, I just look at you well, why are you so fierce?) That's what I'm saying about the misunderstanding, you just don't have to stare into the monkey's eyes)
Most monkeys are bullying soft and afraid of hard tricks, and if you find that you are a strong adult male, there is no intention of backing down or cowardly. Soon changed to the third body language ~ unintentional offense: (If you are an individual with a relatively low order or intuitively not your opponent, they may ignore the process of intimidation and go directly to this link)
The expression is to look away, or to tilt your head to one side. This is to show that there is no intention to offend you and do not want to clash with you.
But whoever finds you to be a bullying lady or child, or finds that there is a fearful timidity in your eyes. Intimidation escalates directly into the fourth type: attack.
So remember, the short-tailed monkey will not attack strong and innerly strong people except for the battle of trapped beasts, which has nowhere to escape.
Don't feel that you give up resistance, after admitting defeat, the monkey will be merciful. Once you feel that you are a bully, the extremely low-ranking deflators in the monkey group (similar to Lu Xun's Ah Q) will come up to you and tear and bite, they have neither the habit of sympathizing with the losers nor the concept of preferential treatment of prisoners of war, coupled with their huge bodies and sharp canine teeth, which will cause serious harm to people and other animals.
If the opposite happens and it feels that your heroism or the shape of the great shore has shocked it, they will immediately change their faces.
This kind of tooth decay, which resembles a smiling expression, is the fifth type of fear.
The monkey with this expression will not attack you, but will make an attitude of recognition for fear of you attacking it.
If you don't attack it at this time, this expression is likely to change to a sixth language , flattery.
If it looks at your reaction in a trance, grinning and quickly sniffing its upper and lower teeth, it is flattering to you, respectfully recognizing your high-ranking status, hoping to get your acceptance. At this time, you are sitting on your side on its side, and they are most likely sitting around to help you groom.
When it comes to grooming (hair management is not necessarily catching lice, monkeys rarely have lice, mainly to clean up the salt particles and dandruff secreted by the skin), it is not only a health care activity to clean the hair body, it is also one of the social languages in the monkey group to express kindness and enhance feelings.
(Monkey King grooming Princess Ai)
It can be a relatively low order to give a relatively high reason, and sometimes a higher-order individual will give a relatively low reason (it may be to unite comrades and envelop the monkey heart), under normal circumstances, the probability of giving a high reason with a low order is more.
The above languages are actually suitable for most primates, and you may wish to try other types of macaques.
The Huangshan short-tailed monkey also has some unique characteristics that are different from other macaques:
1, not afraid of the old king next door.
Other monkeys, depending on different groups of other adult male monkeys, if they do not wear the same heaven, they will be eliminated quickly. In the Huangshan short-tailed monkey group, there are a large number of adult males, some of which are bred in their own groups, and some of which are directly joined from neighboring monkey groups. The Monkey King will not overreact, basically calm acceptance. The reason for this phenomenon, scientists have not yet fully figured out, is it Mr. Monkey King's mysterious self-confidence or the pressure of life, the need for more strong males to defend the monkey group?
2. Preference for sons over daughters
The Huangshan short-tailed monkey group attaches great importance to male baby monkeys, and male baby monkeys are also social artifacts in the monkey group. If a certain male monkey wants to please the leader, there is no need to prepare any tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea, as long as you steal a small male monkey and let the leader lick the little Tintin, the leader will have a green eye on it and think that it is very good at things. Large male monkeys also often intentionally or unintentionally kill female baby monkeys. The specific reason is still unknown.
(The female monkey is heartbroken and holds the baby girl who was killed by the monkey king)
In fact, in the Huangshan short-tailed monkey, there are too many unsolved mysteries, I sincerely hope that everyone has time to come to the Bird Park to observe the record, maybe some mysteries will be unveiled here!
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Some of the pictures come from the web