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  2. Monkeys in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    Monkeys are one of the smartest animals amongst the animal kingdom according to the Chinese culture. Gibbons at play, 1427 painting by the Xuande Emperor. Monkeys, particularly macaques and monkey-like gibbons, have played significant roles in Chinese culture for over two thousand years.

  3. Wildlife of China - Wikipedia

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    China is home to 21 primate species including gibbons, macaques, leaf monkeys, gray langurs, snub-nosed monkeys and lorises. Most of China's primate species are endangered. Both apes and monkeys, particularly gibbons and macaques are prominently featured in Chinese culture, folk religion, art and literature.

  4. Golden snub-nosed monkey - Wikipedia

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    The Sichuan snub-nosed monkey is a seasonal breeding species of colobine endemic to China, and lives in a multi-level social system. Because the basic social and reproductive unit is the harem or one male unit (OMU), which consists of a single resident male, a number of adult females, sub-adult females, juveniles and infants, it has been ...

  5. Gray snub-nosed monkey - Wikipedia

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    The gray snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi), [1] also known as Brelich's snub-nosed monkey, Guizhou snub-nosed monkey, and Guizhou golden monkey, [4] is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. [1] [2] It is endemic to China, [1] where it is known as the Guizhou golden hair monkey (黔金丝猴) or gray golden hair monkey ...

  6. List of mammals of China - Wikipedia

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    The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is the national animal of China. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in China. There are 495 mammal species in China, of which thirteen are critically endangered, twenty-four are endangered, forty-seven are vulnerable, and seven are near threatened. One of the species listed for China can no ...

  7. Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey - Wikipedia

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    Black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys. The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), [3] [4] also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, [5] is a large black and white primate that lives only in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, [6] where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan golden hair monkey (Chinese: 滇金丝猴) and the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey ...

  8. Tibetan macaque - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan macaque is the largest species of macaque and one of the largest monkeys found in Asia. Only the proboscis monkey and the larger species of gray langur are bigger in-size among Asian monkeys. Males are the larger sex, commonly attaining a weight of 13 to 19.5 kg (29 to 43 lb) and length of 61 to 71 cm (24 to 28 in) long, with a ...

  9. Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua - Wikipedia

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    In January 2019, scientists in China reported the creation of five identical cloned gene-edited monkeys, using the same cloning technique that was used with Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, and the same gene-editing CRISPR-Cas9 technique allegedly used by He Jiankui in creating the first ever gene-modified human babies Lulu and Nana. The monkey clones ...