#old world monkeys

[uncharismatic-fauna]

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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Angola Colobus Colobus angolensis

10/7/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

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Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)

This fabulous-looking species is found in tropical, sometimes mountainous forests of Southeast Asia. They eat mostly leaves, and have a multi-chambered stomach which allows them to ferment their food, like a ruminant!

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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).

[arthistoryanimalia]

Geladas (Theropithecus gelada) painted by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (American, 1874-1927) in 1926-7 and reproduced as offset lithographs in Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals, 1930 by the Field Museum (who also hold the original watercolors in their library collection).

Note - Referred to as "Gelada Baboon" in the book, but recent phylogenetic studies place them in a separate clade from other baboons, so simply "Gelada" is preferred...they are also called the "Bleeding-heart Monkey" because of the red skin patch on the chest.

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guys im back

enjoy this photo of a douc

source: here

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—when ape or monkey infants die, their mothers continue to groom and hold the tiny corpses for days, weeks or months, even as the babies' bodies decay or become mummified.

Weisberger M. Why do primates carry around dead infants? livescience.com. Published September 15, 2021. https://www.livescience.com/why-primate-mothers-carry-corpses.html

Alecia Carter / Tsaobis Baboon Project

—found that the primate species was a strong determinant of whether bodies of infants were carried; primates that diverged long ago [like lemurs] did not carry infant bodies after death, but were still found to express grief through other behaviours, such as returning to the corpse or giving “mother-infant contact calls.”

UCL. Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds. UCL News. Published September 14, 2021. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/sep/primate-mothers-may-carry-infants-after-death-way-grieving-study-finds

Younger mothers were more likely to pick up their baby after they died, compared to older mothers.

Gorilla mothers carry their dead babies around, suggesting they grieve. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/gorilla-dead-babies-monkeys-carrying-b1920741.html. Published September 16, 2021.

Our closest relatives, the great apes—bonobos, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans ... along with Old World Monkeys. Both of these groups carried their dead infants the longest.

Tibi Puiu. Some primates carry their dead infants for months as a form of grieving. ZME Science. Published September 16, 2021. https://www.zmescience.com/science/some-primates-carry-their-dead-infants-for-months-as-a-form-of-grieving/

Malhotra R. Mother Monkey Eats Mummified Baby in “Astonishing” Case. Animals. Published September 25, 2017. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/monkey-cannibalism-mother-eats-baby (Photo credit unavailable.)

—a female macaque (a genus of Old World monkey) in an Italian wildlife park carried her dead infant for four weeks, eventually cannibalizing the mummified corpse ... in 2003, after two infant chimpanzees died of respiratory ailments, their mothers carried the babies' corpses for months—

Weisberger M. Why do primates carry around dead infants? livescience.com. Published September 15, 2021. https://www.livescience.com/why-primate-mothers-carry-corpses.html

Claudio, died on Saturday but [his] 11-year-old mother, Gana, continues to carry [his] body around. Zuehlke says such behavior is not uncommon to gorillas: "[she] is mourning and must say goodbye"

Coen B. escenic. The Telegraph. Published August 20, 2008. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2591523/Mourning-gorilla-holds-onto-her-babys-dead-body.html?fb (Photo credit: AP. Whoops! Too bad I don't care.)

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Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys)

Diet in the wild includes a large variety of plants and insects. They eat almost every part of a plant, including not only flowers, seeds, and leaves, but also bark, stems, roots, and even gum.

Ouwehands Dierenpark, taken June 2024

[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.

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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.

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This animal was requested!

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"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

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Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

Beaten only by humans for the title of the furthest-north primate, this monkey lives in a huge range of climates on the islands of Japan, including snowy and mountainous regions. They are famous for their habit of spending time in hot springs to escape the cold. They are also rather intelligent, one group of macaques inventing the idea to wash their food before consumption. They eat a variety of foods, including leaves, fruits, bark, roots, insects, fish, soil, and fungus. Finally, the Japanese macaque is another species of monkey in which homosexuality has been documented; it has even been proposed that most female members of this species are bisexual!

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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.