Not only pandas eat bamboo shoots! This "national treasure" also knows the golden monkey | Nujiang | giant panda
Only "national treasure" giant pandas will eat bamboo shoots? No, the Nujiang Golden Monkey can do it too. Have you ever seen it?
Recently, in the infrared camera images collected on the western slope of the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in Yunnan, a Nujiang golden monkey was recorded breaking bamboo shoots and eating them on the ground. As a national treasure, the Nujiang Golden Monkey eats bamboo shoots as fragrant as a giant panda.
At the same time, monitoring personnel from the National Lushui Management and Protection Bureau of Gaoligongshan once again captured videos and photos of a group of golden monkeys leisurely foraging, playing, chasing, and playing in the trees near the No. 58 forest on Dongpo.
According to monitoring personnel from the Lushui Management and Protection Bureau of the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in Yunnan, there are about 100 Nujiang golden monkeys on the eastern slope of Gaoligong Mountain, divided into three groups. The entire monkey group captured on that day was about 30.
The Nujiang Golden Monkey is only distributed in the Lushui section of the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in China. Its main activity is concentrated in the humid evergreen broad-leaved forest in the middle mountain range of 2300-3300 meters above sea level, as well as some bamboo and coniferous forests. It mainly feeds on various types of food, including leaves, flowers, fruits, and lichens. In spring, it feeds more on leaves, buds, and flower buds, while in autumn, it prefers to feed on fruits. The recording of the Nujiang golden monkeys eating bamboo shoots this time is beneficial for the staff to further understand and master the living habits of the Nujiang golden monkeys, and is of great help to the study of the work of the Nujiang golden monkeys.
In recent years, Lushui City in Nujiang Prefecture has established a three-dimensional ecological protection model of "sealing and banning mountain tops, moving and retreating halfway through the mountains, and building and nurturing river valleys". Significant achievements have been made in the biodiversity protection of Gaoligong Mountain. The population of the Nujiang Golden Monkey continues to grow, inhabiting the Pianma area on the west slope of Gaoligong Mountain and the Luzhang area on the east slope, with a population increase from 170 in 2015 to 254 now.