#old world monkey

[alphynix]

Spectember 2024 #04: Forest Gelada

Someone who identified themself only as Pendrew asked for a "ruminant-like Old World Monkey":

After much of East Africa rifted off into a separate continent, shifting climate turned the alpine grasslands of what was once the Ethiopian Highlands into into warmer subtropical forests – and the highly terrestrial grass-eating geladas that inhabited the region adapted to new sources of food.

Yedenigelada pendrewsii is a large quadrupedal herbivorous monkey, about 1.5m tall at the shoulder (~5'). It has a specialized pseudoruminant digestive system with a three-chambered stomach, similar to that of camelids, and it occupies an ecological niche convergent with the ancient chalicotheres, selectively browsing on trees and shrubs while sitting upright and using its long clawed forelimbs to pull branches within reach. 

Unlike its highly social ancestors this species is mostly solitary, although during the breeding season groups of males come together in leks to compete for female attention. Displays consist of inflating large colorful throat pouches to make loud resonating calls, and flipping upper lips to bare teeth and gums.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

This animal was requested!

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Oskar Kokoschka THE MANDRILL (1926)

[josharlington]

My first experience with the Hamadryas baboon...I don't know if I have the words. Seemingly otherworldly but so familiar at the same time. Genuinely such an incredible animal to witness. I'll have more to share on them later.

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Photographed at the North Carolina Zoo

[caramelcomics]

The thing I learned most about these monkey sketches is that it's like drawing people with extra long arms and furry pants. Weird.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

JUST IN CASE YOU FELT LIKE SLEEPING TONIGHT -- HEAVY NIGHTMARE FUEL FROM NAMIBIA.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an olive baboon (genus: Papio anubis) eating the scavenged remains of a young impala, Namibia, Africa. Credits: @chabaporini. 📸: @roymangersnes.

OVERVIEW: "Baboons have an omnivorous diet but are, for the most part, herbivorous. They do, however, eat insects, and will on occasion eat shellfish, trout, salmon and birds, in addition to small antelope and vervet monkeys.

They are even known to steal goats and sheep from human homesteads.

Baboons also occasionally hunt and capture rabbits, baby gazelles or small monkeys

Baboons hunt in small groups to tackle small prey, like lizards or hares, although they are just as often solitary hunters that roam about over a large territory in search of food."

-- IG @bigcatsnamibia, published November 2023

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2955732492603988756 & Instagram (@bigcatsnamibia page).

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February 6, 2022

Phoenix Zoo

[tekitothemagpie]

Imagine, some time throughout their adventure, Luffy and Zoro get separated from the other Strawhats on some island, which is governed by their enemies.

They're surrounded by strong foes and each fight a strong opponent.

Zoro gets severely injured and loses his consciousness. Luffy, of course, freaks out and immediately goes to help his first mate.

He makes a retreat, seeing Zoro's condition and finds shelter somewhere far away from the battlefield. He doesn't know much but still patches Zoro up the best he can and just holds his swordsman as tight as he can. Waits for him to wake up and for all to be better.

While holding his dearest first mate with the most care and tenderness one can express, he's absolutely furious, with the biggest frown on his face, he swears that whoever did this will pay for it, his Haki oozing out of him and knocking out everyone/everything in range.

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2024 #10: Nosey Sea Monkey & Louse Mouse

Okay, let's finish up this year's round of speculative evolution concepts with one last post before we get back to normal paleoart content.

(…what do you mean it's November 3rd? how did that happen?)

Belial Lyka asked for a "marine proboscis monkey with a somewhat buoyant nose":

A descendant of modern proboscis monkeys, Phusarhinus beliallykae is a large semiaquatic primate found in shallow marshy coastal areas of what was once Southeast Asia. Around 4m long (~13') it has a lifestyle somewhat similar to ancient early sirenians, feeding on soft aquatic plants and hauling out onto land to rest.

Its dense rib bones and long flipper-like grasping forelimbs make it rather front-heavy, allowing it to naturally float with its head and arms hanging down closer to the bottom for energy-efficient foraging. When it needs to resurface to breathe it shunts air from its lungs into its large inflatable nasal sacs, altering its buoyancy enough to tip its head back up towards the surface.

Unlike its ancestors the elaborate nasal structures are found on both males and females – although they're more brightly colored in males and are also used for visual courtship displays and as resonating chambers for loud booming calls.

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And somebody who only gave their name as "bunny" suggested a "parasitic rodent":

Sanguichelonamys bunnyi is a highly unusual descendant of a rakali-like semiaquatic rodent that had a symbiotic relationship with early members of the Phusarhinus lineage. The rodents initially just removed algae and external parasites from the bodies of the increasingly bulky aquatic monkeys, but things have recently started to turn more parasitic.

At just 3cm long (~1.2") Sanguichelonamys is one of the smallest mammals to ever exist, with a wide flattened body and sharp hooked claws used to cling onto its host monkey's thick skin. Although it still does remove other parasites, during haul-out periods it will also use its sharp incisors to deliberately enlarge the wounds left behind – or even open up new ones – and directly feed on fresh blood from its host.

The thickened keratinous skin along its head and back has a specialized hydrophobic surface that traps a layer of air while underwater, acting as a "rebreather" bubble similar to that of water anoles. Along with the ability to drastically slow down its metabolism and respiration rate, this allows Sanguichelonamys to survive being submerged during its host's lengthy foraging dives.

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Wolf's mona monkeys don't have to worry about their eyes being bigger than their stomach. Like chipmunks, they have large cheek pouches which can store an entire stomach's worth of food-- handy for fleeing predators mid-meal, or storing snacks for later!

(Image: A Wolf's mona monkey (Cercopithecus wolfi) by Helene Hoffman)

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[pitske]

"So watch me rise up Open the skies up And take the world by storm I'll flood the dry lands Low and highlands And take the world by storm Every inch of the land, every part of the sky Will be water when I transform it So watch me rise up Open the skies up And take the world by storm"

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Angola Colobus Colobus angolensis

10/7/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

[yore-donatsu]

An ordinary day for an ordinary little girl

(Theo the monkey boy is the @doodlesdreaming's OC)

[lorepossum]

Against the World by Escaped Audios is so tonally batshit but I have literally NEVER seen a superhero series of any kind replicate the exact feeling of playing one of my favorite superhero themed tabletop roleplaying games so perfectly so for that (and many other reasons) I adore it.

Like… fr, barring the amount of the straight up murder… Against the World is basically just like listening to a game of Masks. (The only reason there ISN’T murder in Masks is because you’re playing teenage Heros/antiheroes). The tonal shifts make sense to me because every Masks game I have ever been in has been like this.

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November 20, 2021

Phoenix Zoo

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