Monkeys are often entertained by animals because they are intelligent and "similar to people", and some monkeys in the monkey family, some monkeys of the marmoset subfamily, are particularly small in size, and have become the favorite pets of many people. Becoming pets does not mean that their status will become higher, on the contrary, some breeds become precarious because of the involvement of poachers. Before we get to the point, let's get to know these monkeys together.
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Lion-faced marmoset
There are four species of lion-faced marmosets, namely golden lion marmoset, golden-headed lion marmoset, black lion marmoset, and black-faced lion marmoset. In addition to slight differences in appearance, living habits and living areas are similar.
The head of the monkey of the genus Lion-faced Marmoset is about 25 to 33 cm long, and the tail is more than 40 cm long, which is the largest of the miniature monkeys. They used to be distributed throughout Brazil and now live in only a few protected areas.
Monkeys of the genus Lion-faced Marmosets are small families, with 2 to 8 individuals forming a small group of members who are the parents and their offspring. Usually the parents are one female and one male, and sometimes there are two males and one male or two males and one female breeding together.
One of the most beautiful is the golden lion marmoset, which is famous for being covered with golden fluff, and some people in China jokingly call them the real golden retriever "lion" king.
In addition to the golden hair on the face and part of the body, the overall hair of the golden lion marmoset is black, but this contrast shows that their golden part is more vivid.
The color scheme of the black-faced lion marmoset and the gold-headed lion marmoset is exactly the opposite...
The black lion marmoset is naturally pure black.
The biggest feature of the lion-faced marmoset is a thick hair that resembles the mane of a lion. They are not difficult to survive and reproduce in the wild, but because of their narrow distribution range, the population of these monkeys is relatively fragile, and they are a species that cannot withstand the toss.
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Tamarix monkey genus
There are 17 species of Tamarind monkey genus, also from South America, including Brazil, Colombia and other countries have different distributions. The tamarind monkey genus is also a marmoset monkey, and their characteristic is that they are good at "planting trees". These monkeys feed on the fruit of trees, and they like to throw leftover seeds in areas that have been cut down, as if they know a lot about the regeneration of resources. Although newly grown trees cannot immediately supply these planted monkeys with food, it is beneficial for their offspring to continue such behavior.
The Imperial Tamarix Monkey is named after the beard that resembles the beard of an old king. Head and body length range from 13 to 30 cm.
Due to their narrow distribution area, tamarind monkeys are also relatively rare species, but because they get along well with humans, they can still be seen in the pet market.
The red-palmed tamarind monkey is also known as the golden-handed marmoset, the Midas marmoset, or the red-handed marmoset. Thai singer Lee Yong Chin has two as pets.
The head of the red-palmed tamarind monkey is about 30 cm long and the tail is 45 cm long.
Tamarind monkeys are also monkeys that move on a family basis, and male tamarind monkeys are mainly responsible for the daily care of babies. Not because feminism prevails in their group and female monkeys have a high status, but because they live in trees all year round, they are small, and children can easily fall from the trees and fall to their deaths. Male monkeys are more responsive and observant, and can better notice whether the child is in danger, thereby improving the chances of survival of the cub.
Tamarind is a relatively rare black and white marmoset in the genus Tamarind.
The black and white marmoset is a relatively small population in the genus Tamarix, but the pressure to survive does not come from the pet market or tree felling, but from competition from the same kind and the predation of stray cats and dogs. The habitat of the black and white marmoset has been invaded by a large number of red-palmed tamarind monkeys, so that the population has also been suppressed, and if there is no human intervention, they are likely to be completely replaced by the red-palmed tamarind monkeys in the future.
Tamarix is the most popular genus of Tamarix, with a head length of 20.8–25.9 cm and a weight of less than 0.5 kg.
The tamarind monkey is also called the Liszt monkey because its hair resembles that of the pianist Liszt. Because of its unique appearance and relatively small size, the suede tamarind monkey is loved by some local tycoons who pursue "exoticism", and more than 60,000 tamarind monkeys have been exported, but they have been protected and prohibited from trading.
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Marmosets
There are 22 species of monkeys in the genus Marmosets, including the smallest pygmy marmoset in the monkey kingdom. Monkeys of the genus Marmosets are generally smaller in the marmoset subfamily.
The marmoset species called common marmosets can also look not ordinary at all, with a head and body length of 19-25 cm, which is more numerous.
The white-faced marmoset, which is the opposite of the color on the face of an ordinary marmoset, is also called a Marmoset. Marmosets are a relatively common zoo species, they are numerous, easy to reproduce, and their appearance is also relatively good-looking.
The simple-looking white marmoset is relatively rare in number.
The smallest monkeys are pygmy marmosets, or marmosets, finger monkeys, squirrel monkeys, etc. Their heads are about 12 centimeters long and weigh only 60 grams, but they are agile and have a strong ability to survive.
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Keeping wild animals as pets just looks beautiful
Although many wild animals have unique appearances, rare varieties, and feel very popular when raised, the current worldwide trend still refuses to raise wild animals, because this is a "beautiful looking" behavior, which is actually very harmful to the ecological environment and to human beings themselves.
Difficult to reproduce artificially
The main reason for refusing to keep wild animals as pets is that most wild animals are difficult to breed artificially, and people in the pet market basically go to catch wild living bodies to sell. Originally, without human intervention, the number of wild animals could remain stable, but if pet traders intervened and caught unrestrained, an animal could soon be caught and extinct in the wild.
Unlike traditional hunters, pet traders demand individuals who are unique in appearance and whose younger age is better. Traditional hunting is fought by adult individuals, who encounter pregnant or child-bearing wild animals and leave them alive. Pet traders, on the other hand, specialize in catching animal cubs, and sometimes even kill adult females in order to obtain their cubs. Such capture is not harmful to the ecological environment.
Some of the bird-catching and tarantulas commonly found in the reptile pet market are now extinct in captivity and have disappeared in the wild. Some time ago, "Zootopia" brought fire to the auricular fox, and a large number of wild auricular foxes on the Arabian Peninsula were arrested by the family extinction, and the wild auricular foxes in many areas have disappeared. These are living and bloody examples.
Wild is hard to tame
There are very few wild animals like marmosets that can get along well with humans, most of the wild animals have not lived with humans for a long time, let alone been domesticated, they are very wild, they will try to attack humans, and they will fight with their own kind in order to occupy the land, and it is not only dangerous to raise them, but also prone to animal escape. Once wild animals are sold to other countries and then run away, it is easy to damage the local ecology.
It was once popular in Russia to keep raccoons, but many raccoons escaped from breeding and became stray raccoons, causing a lot of trouble to city dwellers. Some owners in Taiwan raise foxes as pets, the front foot becomes an Internet celebrity, and the owner of the back foot roars all over the street looking for the fleeing fox, and the result is naturally impossible to find.
Even a pet fox that claims to have been domesticated can bite the owner's hand without a word, and the blood will flow to the ground.
Spreading disease
Ecological environment is a very broad concept, as large as the entire earth, as small as a wild animal, there is a unique ecology. Each animal has some unique bacteria, viruses, parasites, and the animal also has some antibodies necessary to keep it from getting sick because of these little guys. However, wild animals that are far away from the human environment carry bacteria, viruses, parasites and antibodies, and it is difficult to integrate with the human environment. They can infect humans with terrible diseases that are deadly, and they can also die from some bacterial viruses that are harmless to humans.
Isn't the culprit of this new crown epidemic, the coronavirus, native to bats? There is a peculiar tourism program in the United States called bat tourism, and the guide will take tourists to some inaccessible bat caves to observe bats. Americans have a very special complex about bats, and Batman is their invention.
Destruction of the ecology
Raising wild animals is a common practice, and it is not only these wild animals, but also humans, but also the ecological environment that are injured. Some environments are invaded, others are destroyed. To know that an area can achieve ecological balance, it is the result of many years of natural reconciliation, how many species sacrifice and run-in, destruction is easy to build.
There is no shortage of cute and strange breeds of wild animals, everyone has evolved for so many years, and has been evolving in the cycle of eating and being eaten, but they did not expect to kill a species called humans, and actually catch other species on the grounds of "cute and good-looking". If this kind of behavior of human beings is not controlled, the people who may be able to survive on the earth under human control in the future are some ugly-looking animals... This sight is much more terrifying than the end of the world...