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Golden Snub nosed Monkeys🐒

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SpeciesPrimatesCercopithecidae
Primates

🐒Golden snub-nosed monkey

Rhinopithecus roxellana (A.Milne-Edwards, 1870)

Gyllene trubbnäsapa (Rhinopithecus roxellana) är en art bland däggdjuren som först beskrevs av Henri Milne-Edwards 1870. Den gyllene trubbnäsapan ingår i släktet Rhinopithecus (trubbnäsapor), och familjen markattartade apor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. Wilson & Reeder (2005) och IUCN skiljer mellan tre underarter.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/4th of your weight
Also called
Golden Monkey, Chinese Snub-nosed Monkey, Golden Snub-nosed Langur, Sichuan Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, Sichuan Snub-nosed Langur, Snow Monkey
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
15 kg
Body length
0.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Golden snub-nosed monkey

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
15 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.7 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 30 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
13 years
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Gestation
199 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 199 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
24 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
4.6 per km²
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Volume l
15 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Golden snub-nosed monkey yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyCercopithecidae
  6. ›genusRhinopithecus
  7. ›speciesRhinopithecus roxellana
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. familyCercopithecidae
  3. subfamilyColobinae
  4. genusRhinopithecus
All 16 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. superfamilyCercopithecoidea
  14. familyCercopithecidae
  15. subfamilyColobinae
  16. genusRhinopithecus
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants80%
fruit10%
seeds and grain10%
In other languages
Goldstumpfnase (de), 川金丝猴 (zh), Macaco-dourado (pt), rokselana złocista (pl), 황금들창코원숭이 (ko), Рокселланов ринопитек (ru) … and 21 more languages

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