What is a thumb monkey
The smallest monkey in the world – it is also known as the "marmoset". Marmosets, collectively known as species of the marmoset family. The marmoset family includes the subfamily jumping monkey and the marmoset subfamily. There are 3 genera and 35 species known, including lion marmoset, imperial tamarind monkey, top tamarind monkey, pygmy marmoset, black and white tamarind monkey, and common marmoset monkey.
Marmosets have a long, small tail, a tangled tail, a rounded head, no cheek sac, and a lateral nostril. Unlike other higher primates, only the big toe has nails, and the remaining toes and fingers are claws.
Marmosets are widely bred and used in many research areas in the life sciences because of their physiological characteristics, which are extremely similar to humans.
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Recently, Xiao Chen, a citizen who is engaged in jewelry business in the circle of friends, resold monkeys - yes, this monkey is smaller than a mouse, only the size of a thumb, and it is a real monkey that jumps around alive! In the New Year, in addition to jewelry play, the rich circle has become popular with a new gadget: the new pet thumb monkey.
"What snow leopard skin, crane top red are weak and explosive, this is my New Year's gift, named Xiao Sheng..." Xiao Chen "sacrificed" his cool Year of the Monkey "mascot" in the circle of friends, which is a monkey the size of a thumb. Soon, the circle of friends became lively, and countless people asked for prices, so Xiao Chen had no choice but to reply in a unified manner: "Friends have a sale, one is thirty thousand."
What is a thumb monkey? The reporter inquired and learned that this cute creature lives in the forest of the Amazon River Basin in South America and is the smallest monkey in the world - it is also known as "marmoset". When the thumb monkey grows up, it is only 10-12 cm tall and weighs 80-100 grams, making it a rare animal in the world.
The reporter contacted Xiao Chen in the circle of friends, expressed the intention to buy, Xiao Chen told reporters, because the circle of friends are all playing jewelry and high-level literary play people, so he helped friends resell, the price of one hand will be 25,000 yuan, reselled 30,000 yuan, but has not yet been traded.
"Buying and selling is certainly illegal, and it's not just one department that's in charge." A staff member of the relevant department said that this kind of thumb monkey in particular belongs to an alien species, which not only involves the protection of wild animals, but also involves inspection and quarantine issues.
In addition, not only is it illegal to sell thumb monkeys, but it is also illegal to keep thumb monkeys. Our law stipulates that no primate can be kept privately. In addition, an inspection and quarantine expert also said that any species have an environment that adapts to growth, such as tropical fish, and it is difficult to survive without a heating rod in Xiamen, and the thumb monkey that lives in the forest of the Amazon River Basin in South America all year round will be difficult to survive without the local environment.
Marmoset characteristics
It is a small tail with a long tail, a tangled tail, a rounded head, no buccal sac, and a lateral nostril.
Most of the marmosets are about 19 to 25 cm long, the tail length is about 27 to 35 cm, the body size is slightly larger than that of squirrels, the head and face look like a pug or lion's head, the head is round, the ears are large, the velvety body is hairy, the tail is long and the end is long; the female weighs between 220 and 350 g, and the male is about 260 to 450 g; only the big toe has flat nails, and the remaining fingers and toes are claw-like pointed claws, and the toes can be held; there are 1 pair of nipples on the chest; the hind limbs are longer than the forelimbs; 32 teeth; the tooth type is heterodistorate, with incisors, canine teeth, Premolars and molars, buccal teeth are usually mounds and low crown teeth, molars are square and have 4 lower cone-like protrusions, suitable for chewing; acute sense of smell, hearing, and vision; bicornal uterus or monouterus, with cecum; the skin of the face changes color in the sun, and the body temperature is unstable
There are 3 genera and 35 species of marmosets, and are small low-level apes native to Central and South America.
Saguinus imperator, also known as the Emperor Marmoset, the Emperor Marmoset, the Long-bearded Marmoset, the Imperial Marmoset or the Emperor Tamarin Monkey, is known as the "Emperor" because of its resemblance to Wilhelm II of Germany. The name was originally a joke and later became the official scientific name.
Cotton ear velvet monkey, also known as the common marmoset monkey. Adults are only 20 cm long at most and weigh 300 to 400 g. [2]
The yellow-headed marmoset, also known as the yellow-crowned marmoset, is a genus of marmosets endemic to Brazil. Marmosets are small long-tailed monkeys native to South America. Like a squirrel, it is an arboreal animal and moves quite quickly. Prefers to be in small groups during the day. With the exception of the big toe, the rest of the toes have claws on them, which are conducive to jumping in trees. Unlike the rest of the American primates, they lack a third pair of molars. From the beginning of the 17th century, marmosets were kept as pets. The main food is insects, and some fruits are also eaten. Marmosets have shorter teeth and are generally 15 to 25 cm long, excluding a tail that is 25 to 40 cm long. Its fur is dense, as fine and smooth as silk.
Pygmy marmoset, the smallest monkey found in the world, living in the tropical rainforest of South America, a small monkey that looks and behaves like a squirrel, because of its small tail, resting on a very small plant branch, and agile, often running between the woods, jumping freely, so the local call it "squirrel monkey", "bird monkey" and so on. After zoologists, it was determined that its scientific name was pygmy marmoset or marmoset.
Other events:
No1: The nearly 5-meter-long python is now in downtown Shenzhen Straightening is about two stories high
The 5-meter-long python is now in downtown Shenzhen
Yesterday (9th), on the second day of the Lunar New Year, a large python protected by the state appeared in the Shenzhen section of the border between Guangdong and Hong Kong - the duty point of the 15th Squadron of the Six Detachments of the Border Defense Near the Donggang District of Yantian Port, and was found by officers and soldiers in the border defense forbidden area, and the python was nearly 5 meters long.
At about 14:00 on the same day, Xiao Zheng and Xiao Zhou, sentries of the fifteenth squadron of the six detachments of the Shenzhen Border Defense, suddenly heard the sound of "rustling" coming from the buffer belt more than 20 meters away from them in the border defense penalty area. With experience, most of them are the ringing of smuggling criminals. So, the two sentry soldiers and horses hid, waiting for the opportunity to slowly approach, after 3 minutes, the sound disappeared, after about 5 minutes, there was a violent sound from the tree, the sentry judged by the sound, in front of the tree.
The two sentries, looking closer, were suddenly dumbfounded, and a large python coiled in the buffer zone of the border defense zone, rolled into a ball, lying flat on the ground, looking directly at the sentry in a friendly manner, without any offensive action. "The python of the class will not be for us to pay homage to the New Year," said Xiao Zheng, a hubei warrior. After all, they had never seen such a thick snake, and the two sentries were overwhelmed. After 5 minutes of observation, the python was still lying on the ground friendly and motionless. The sentry Xiao Zheng then found a few helpers and carried the python back to the barracks, which was measured to be about 4.6 meters long, straightened nearly two stories high, and weighed about 50 pounds. Officers and soldiers then simply disinfected and fed the python and handed it over to the Wildlife Conservation Center for release.
No2. Thriller real-life shot of a giant python devouring impala
A huge python devouring impala in Kruger National Park in South Africa was filmed, and the impala's body was tightly locked by the huge python, strangled and swallowed little by little. After 10 minutes of slow swallowing, the impala has only one leg left exposed.
The horrific image was captured by 54-year-old photographer Grobella. She wanted to photograph wild lions, but by coincidence, she accidentally captured the image of a python hunting.
The picture shows a python devouring impala.
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