snub-nosed monkey
rhinopithecus latin

The black snub-nosed monkey was almost completely unknown until the 1990s.

In recent years, however, knowledge about the behavior and ecology of the black snub-nosed monkey has grown.

The golden snub-nosed monkey is endangered due to habitat loss.

It is also widely referred to as the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey.

The golden snub-nosed monkey gives birth from March to June.

There is little information available on the sleeping cluster patterns of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys.

Like most primates, the snub-nosed monkey gives birth at night, making it difficult for researchers to observe.

The young golden snub-nosed monkey is warming its extremities.

The golden snub-nosed monkey is found in groups ranging in size from 5-10 individuals to bands of about 600.

Though legally protected, the gray snub-nosed monkey is threatened seriously due to habitat loss.

It is the home of the endangered Black Snub-nosed Monkey.

Some taxonomists group snub-nosed monkeys together with the Pygathrix genus.

The adult and subadult golden snub-nosed monkey is sexually dimorphic.

The golden snub-nosed monkey lives in temperate areas.

Local fauna includes the endangered giant panda and golden snub-nosed monkey.

"I was the first American to see the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in its natural habitat.

It is a home of the rare Golden snub-nosed monkey and the Giant panda.

Females of the golden snub-nosed monkey are usually observed to form several close associations with other females.

Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys live at the highest altitude of any primate, except for...

The black snub-nosed monkey lives in one of the most extreme environments of any nonhuman primate.

However, habitats of known Tonkin snub-nosed monkey populations were long lost and fragmented prior to their rediscovery.

Snub-nosed monkeys and the langurs are the two major groups of colobine monkeys in Asia.

In 2010 Aveling drew the first illustration of the newly discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey.

Snub-nosed monkeys inhabit mountain forests up to a height of 4,000 m, in the winter moving into the deeply secluded regions.

There is also evidence of at least one primate species, the golden snub-nosed monkey, that also suffered from a bottleneck around this time.

The monkey was identified in 2012 as a new species Rhinopithecus strykeri.

Snub-nosed monkeys are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Rhinopithecus.

The genus Rhinopithecus is unusual among colobines in having forelimbs almost as long as their hind limbs and ischial callosities separated in males and females.

The species is isolated from other snub-nosed Rhinopithecus by the Mekong and the Salween rivers; the other 4 species, golden, black, gray and Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys, are found in China and Vietnam.

The prominent ones are the Owston's Civet Hemigalus owstoni (globally vulnerable), Francois's Leaf Monkey Trachypithecus francoisi and Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus avunculus (the globally critically endangered).

However, in a detailed observation of the free-ranging band in the Qinling Mountains in central China, results have suggested that winter night activity of Rhinopithecus Roxellana is a compromise between antipredator and thermoregulatory strategies and an adaptation to ecological conditions of their temperate habitat.