Endangered
Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey
Rhinopithecus bieti
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, is a large black and white primate that lives only in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan golden hair monkey and the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (黑白仰鼻猴).
Appearance
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, is a large black and white primate that lives only in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan golden hair monkey and the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (黑白仰鼻猴).
Range and habitat
This species has a highly restricted distribution in the bio-diverse Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests of the Yun Range, that is part of the greater Hengduan Mountains. Deciduous and coniferous forests are their preferred habitat, where lichen grows in abundance year-round. The common name, black snub-nosed monkey, is issued to Rhinopithecus strykeri, inhabiting the Northern Sino-Myanmar border.
Habitat labels include forest.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Unlike many primates, the black-and-white snub-nosed monkey's diet consists mainly of lichen found on trees. This primate's diet is mainly made up of the large amounts of lichens available in their region.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss, and is considered an endangered species.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, Wikidata item Q1204873. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
