Nasalis larvatus

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Nasalis larvatus
The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) is an arboreal ape of the family Cercopithecidés. The Nasique also called on the monkey wrong.

Habitat
It is present in Asia, on the island of Borneo. It is located in forests in tropical deciduous leaves, and more precisely in mangrove forests near freshwater and in the rainforests of the plains.

Features
The most striking is an appendix nasal soft and flat, which already prominent in females, reached significant proportions in males. The proboscis monkey attracts females with his long nose and soft. The nose of the proboscis monkey facilitates things in the heat of the body. Their nose is growing throughout their lives. The proboscis monkey is an excellent swimmer. When the proboscis monkey is disturbed, his face turns red. The nasiques flexible live in groups of 10 to 30 individuals. The species is highly threatened due to the clearing of coastal forest which is their habitat. Its numbers are estimated at 7000 people wild.

The Nasique male:
* Size: 66 to 76 cm
* Weight: 16 to 24 kg
* Tail: 60 to 76 cm

The Nasique female:
* Size: 53 to 61 cm
* Weight: 7 to 11 kg
* Tail: 55 to 70 cm

Food
The Nasique is strictly vegetarian, it will eat leaves (often more fruit and seeds). The leaves he prefers are those of pedada.

Trivia
The proboscis monkey has inspired the cartoonist Herge, Vol 714 pour Sydney, six vignettes of humorous interlude, taking the pretext of a supposed resemblance between the animal and the "evil of history," Rastapopoulos. Shortly after issuing it, prisoner chosen by Tintin and Captain Haddock, his lieutenant Allan, after having withdrawn its ties and tape, which baillonnait his boss, heard a noise and, turning, saw a proboscis monkey taking his legs to his neck in the clearing, frightened by these intruders humans. Allan realizes, but a little late, that the "random" proboscis monkey reminds one of Rastapopoulos, which already very upset by his previous misadventures, shot his gaze lieutenant.

Read also Borneo-Orang-Utan

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