The Proboscis Monkey Appreciation Thread

BALKAN

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After google image searching proboscis monkeys to post in another thread, I've been reading up on them and I think I've discovered my new favourite animal. Apparently they're fantastic swimmers and their large noses strangely don't improve their smell at all!

Since the nose is so obvious, I guess today’s Wild Fact will talk about it. Anyone know why the proboscis monkey requires such a large nose? For their super monkey sense of smell you say? So they can sniff out some yummy fruit from about 20 kilometers away? Actually, believe it or not the proboscis monkey does not have a better sense of smell than other monkey’s with much smaller noses. Crazy, eh? So what can they be used for? Would you believe me if I told you that these noses drive the women proboscis monkey’s wild! It is true, one of the uses for such a large nose is to attract a suitable mate. Just like the antler’s of a bull moose, the nose of a proboscis monkey displays that monkey’s status. This monkey’s nose can get as large as 7 inches. The males have larger noses than females and the older males have larger noses than the young males, just like moose antlers
http://www.wild-facts.com/2009/wild-fact-933-everything-you-want-to-nose-about-the-proboscis-monkey/

Heres a short vid on them


I think it's impossible to look at a proboscis monkey and not be happy.



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The monkey also goes by the Malay name monyet belanda ("Dutch monkey"), or even orang belanda ("Dutchman"), as Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses.
Dat racism.


The male has a red penis with a black scrotum.
Copulations tend to last for half a minute.
The male will grab the female by the ankles or torso and mount her from behind.
Just like us.


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