The Proboscis Monkey Appreciation Thread

[BALKAN]

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.

Discuss.

Mods please heavily moderate this thread.

 

[mad_monkey_j]

With all animals the size of the nose doesn't matter*, it's the number of receptors that indicate how well they can smell.

*Insert some sort of penis joke there.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

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.

UMAD

 

[lemon chicken]

I see the origin's of the term dicknose.

 

[SugarShane]

Michael Firrito board.

 

[little graham]

Who knows that these monkeys rape there mate after winning a mine is bigger than yours contest.

 

[Mofra]

They can act too

 

[little graham]

And stand for parliament.

 

[Freofalcon]

And commentate.*






* Debatable

 

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[SugarShane]

Here's another one in his natural habitat.

 

[Gough]

And be a gay icon.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

cephalopod's are much cooler.

 

[stormee]

Dat monkey

 

[lewigie]

meaty nose meaty hose

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[Borry]

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Wrong thread, that one is for rangatang appreciation.

 

[Illinois Nazi]