Here’s a National Geographic video about the Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)—a pretty accurate description of its appearance. The baby comes in for some rough treatment when all the females want to hug it.
Here’s its range (it’s endangered because of habitat loss):
h/t: Vera
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Very touching. I’m sure there is a lesson here about how humans came to be touchy-feely creatures.
They are merely capitulating to gender roles pressed upon them by the primatocracy.
LOL. All is well in the kingdom.
“Passed around”? You mean snatched around.
Gosh, they’re like overweening human “aunties,” related or not. I’d be screeching, too.
“Golden snub-nosed monkey baby passed around the troop…”
I didn’t think this sentence was going to end well.
This is how they make the kids strong.
Yeah, I was thinking: tough love.
The snub nose gives them a skeletal look. Day of the Dead monkeys. 💀
Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re cute.
I know how the Aunties feel. I can never wait to get a cuddle either, though I do wait until it’s offered!
The same thing happens when someone shows up with a newborn in my workplace.
Poor baby!
So is the hug perhaps a common behaviour to the primate order?