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Artificially-fed black snub-nosed monkey baby starts wild training in China's Yunnan
Artificially-fed black snub-nosed monkey baby starts wild training in China's Yunnan
1/10/2021
The first black snub-nosed monkey baby artificially fed with milk powder and other human foods in southwest China's
Yunnan
Province has started its wild training in hopes of returning to the nature as soon as possible.
Black snub-nosed monkey is a first-class protected animal in China and the primate with the highest altitude distribution in the world, which is only distributed in the alpine primeval forests of northwest
Yunnan
and southeast Tibet Autonomous Region.
In April 2019, Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve in
Yunnan
rescued an abandoned little black snub-nosed monkey and named it Kang Kang.
Kang Kang was abandoned by its mother when it was born. At that time, it was very weak and could only survive on milk powder, which maked it the first black snub-nosed monkey raised by milk powder in
Yunnan
.
"Before one year old, Kang Kang mainly took the milk powder as its staple food. And after one year old, we gradually began to feed it with other foods such as the usnea, pumpkin seeds and peanuts to increase its food diversity," said Lai Jiandong, worker of Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve.
After two years of careful breeding by the staff, Kang Kang has grown up healthily. Now, it is one year and eight months old.
In order to help Kang Kang return to nature as soon as possible, the staff has specially developed a rewilding training course for it.
"We began to do some rewilding training for it. We would take it to the forest every day for doing the regular rewilding training," Lai said.
On July 15, 2019, a nationwide network for the protection of black snub-nosed monkey was officially launched. Through joint efforts by many sides, the population of black snub-nosed monkey has risen to about 3,000 in the province.