Injured bee monkeys come to the right place by mistake and are "treated" in the hospital for free

With increased environmental protection awareness, people's awareness of the protection of unfamiliar animals is also getting stronger. Recently the staff found a small animal center health center door hesitant, both want to walk into the hospital, but were also afraid of being captured.

Seeing that this animal has big fluffy eyes, not a common small animal, should belong to the protection of animals, first to control it, and then quickly notify the forest police. After the forest police's confirmation: it was indeed a protected animal - a bee monkey, the reason why it was easily caught was that this bee monkey's forelimbs had been injured.

The injured bee monkey should have come to the hospital by mistake, but could not think of the right place to come and enjoy the hospital's free "treatment". In the process of cleaning its wounds, the bee monkey was very cooperative and did not resist the veterinarian, closing its eyes and seemingly enjoying the doctor's wound cleaning and medication, etc. Finally, when it recovered, it chose to be released back into nature.

The bee monkey is a monkey that has not yet fully evolved

The bee monkey is a primate of the sloth family, generally 21-38 cm in height and weighing up to 2 kg, with populations mainly distributed in the jungles of Southeast Asia and Yunnan and southern Guangxi.

Many primates have very flexible limbs and have developed clawless ends, but bee monkeys are not fully evolved monkeys and are still relatively primitive, with the shape still retaining a hooked claw, the 2nd toe of the bee monkey still retaining a curved claw, and the end of the finger being in a flat nail state, all of which are still relatively primitive features of the bee monkey.

The bee monkey genus is the only extant poisonous primate

Unlike other primates, bee monkeys are not as fast and agile as other primates, but they do have a defensive weapon: they have poisonous glands hidden in their elbows, and if they are threatened by predators, they will wave their elbows and release the venom, which can scare off predators to a certain extent.

Bee monkeys are furry and very cute, also have sharp teeth, and there are also toxins in this saliva in the teeth, people are bitten, which will lead to wound infection, swelling, etc., but the toxins are not large and are not dangerous to human life.

To protect their young, adult bee monkeys also apply venom to the hairs of their young, and when threatened, immediately curl up into a ball and let the toxic hairs face the predator, so that they can defend themselves against the predator and avoid being harmed. This venom, a threat to other animals, has many effects on bee monkeys and prevents parasites from growing on them, so bee monkeys always use its venom to coat their hair.

The survival crisis of bee monkeys

Among primates, bee monkeys belong to a category of lazy monkeys, moving relatively slowly. This is because in the tropical rainforest, bee monkeys have ample food sources and do not have to run around to find food, and the color of bee monkeys, when they move and hide in trees, can be well-camouflaged trees, making it difficult for their natural enemies, such as snakes and raptors, to find their traces, and slowly become lazy, choosing to rest during the day and only occasionally move at night They become lazy, choosing to rest during the day and only move occasionally at night in search of food, etc.

This survival skill of the bee monkey can deal with natural enemies, but with the deforestation of the rainforest, coupled with the favored appearance of the bee monkey, people have transitioned to capturing wild bee monkeys and selling them as pet monkeys. To avoid bee monkeys biting people, poachers usually cut and pull out the teeth of the bee monkeys, which easily causes bee monkey casualties and makes the survival of the bee monkey population not optimistic.

Thousands of bee monkeys have been sold in Southeast Asia, leaving the bee monkey population declining rapidly and listed by the IUCN as an endangered species on the Red List of Threatened Species.