Daily Forest Ranger: Start Saving Giant Pandas

Chapter 173 The Black Monkey in Ancient Records
As a scholar, although it may be inappropriate to make such remarks when there is no conclusion, I really think this little guy may not be the kind of marmoset we usually recognize, or it may be a new species weather.

Lin Xuan stared at the little marmoset mother for a long time, and then said.

[The host is fine, you say that, then we will treat you as chatting with us, not popular science]

【Yes, it’s just chatting, it’s not serious to publish some academic findings, so don’t be so cautious!】

[Yeah, yeah, if the anchor has any guesses, just tell us, we all love to hear it! 】

"Then I'll just say this, everyone just listen to it and let it be a small talk. Don't take offense if I'm really wrong."

A large piece of "It's okay, it's okay, you talk about it."

Lin Xuan stretched out his hand to tease the monkey mother who was poking her head over her shoulder, and said:
"Just now some friends mentioned it in the live broadcast room, saying that they have heard of it and browsed some allusions and Wentang works about the black monkey.

Before, I thought this might just be a species that only existed in ancient books and allusions, but through the observation just now, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that there was a big gap between these two little monkeys and the marmosets I knew.

Feeling Lin Xuan's teasing, the marmoset mother was quite stable, but the little monkey behind her obviously couldn't stand the "provocation" and was about to climb down to compete with Lin Xuan immediately. Lin Xuan quickly withdrew her hand in fright.

Good guy, if this little monkey leaves its mother's back, I'm afraid it will fall to the ground as soon as the wind blows.

And if it's Daheitian's, if you lose a child, you won't be able to find out.

Forget it, I can't afford it, I can't afford it.

This little guy almost interrupted his train of thought.

Lin Xuan smiled and continued:
"There are different opinions on whether monkeys like the black monkey really exist.

Let's say it exists, there is no example of this kind of monkey found in modern times.

But if you want to say that it does not exist, countless ancient people have mentioned that this kind of monkey was once raised, and the age spans a long time.

The most famous of these should be the rumors about the black monkey left behind by Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, when he wrote books in the Wuyishan Jingshe. "

Lin Xuan thought for a while, and then said eloquently:
"It is said that at that time he once raised such a monkey, which was no taller than the holder of a pen and weighed no more than two.

Usually when Zhu Xi was reading, the little monkey stood on the pen holder and listened quietly.

When Zhu Xi wanted to write, the little monkey would jump down from the pen container very well, and diligently grind ink to serve him. When Zhu Xi went out, the little monkey would loyally guard the door of the house and prevent others from entering.

Of course, from our current point of view, this allusion actually has a lot of loopholes. After all, it is just a little monkey weighing less than half a catty. How do you expect him to look after the house.

However, the description of this little monkey is actually not far from the monkey mother on me.

Lin Xuan tilted his head and glanced at the monkey mother on his shoulder.

Now through artificial breeding, the common marmoset is no longer a species that has been released. Instead, because of its high individual survival rate and non-human primate, it is widely used in medical or biochemical fields as experimental subjects.

I have also been fortunate enough to meet this captive-bred marmoset.

To be honest, although this kind of marmoset can also imitate human behavior, it is far worse than the monkey mother we met just now.

Lin Xuan shook his head; "In Zhu Xi's description, the name of this kind of black monkey is Wang Sun, and there is a poem to testify: "It is the end of the season, when the red and green are rotten, when the good birds sing, Wang Sunyuan calls . '

In the follow-up, many literati also called this little monkey Wang Sun, but it is not known whether it started from Zhu Xi. '

However, the ink monkey mentioned by Zhu Xi is only the most widely spread theory, and there is no more detailed description of the ink monkey.

Compared with Zhu Xi, Xu Chenglie of the Qing Dynasty wrote more vivid records of the black monkeys produced in Guangxi in his "Notes of Listening to Yuxuan", even the fur color habits are very detailed. "

Lin Xuan smiled slightly: "According to his records, the ink monkey was born in Yangshuo County, Guangxi, and it was as big as a fist, with golden hair and shining eyes.

It can sleep curled up in the pen container, put it in the book case, and if you want to grind the ink, you can tap it a few times, and the monkey will come out quickly, kneel beside the inkstone, hold the ink with its two front feet, and grind it, so that it stops as soon as it stops.

When you see a few flies and ants, you will catch them and eat them. If there are no flies or ants, you can pull weeds between flower pots to catch insects, and search for them.

Its nature is to drink water for a long time, so it is only fed with fruits.

If there is this thing in the summer room, the flies will stay away. Therefore, wherever there is a gathering of banquets there, they are always placed on the side, and the literati store it in several cases. "

"Through his wonderful pens, it is not difficult to see that the ink monkeys in Yangshuo, Guangxi can not only study ink, but also prey on flies and ants on several tables, and even pull weeds and insects for flower pots. Their intelligence is already quite incredible. .

And this level of intelligence is actually quite similar to the monkey mother we just saw. "

"In addition to Yangshuo in Guangxi, black monkeys were also produced in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty.

According to the Qing Dynasty's "Wearing and Seeing Different Words Little Monkey" records: "The ink monkey produced in Guangdong is about three inches long, and the smaller it is, the more expensive it is. It costs more than ten gold to buy one.

It is hidden in the pen holder at ordinary times, and it jumps out when writing, holding the ink and hovering until the ink is thick.

After writing, if you lick the ink with your tongue, the inkstone field will not be washed all year round, and you can come in and out freely, and the breathing of the silver tube Pulu should correspond to it, but this kind of monkey is rare. '

"According to this statement, it is obviously not as "versatile" as the black monkey in Yangshuo, Guangxi, but there is also a very interesting statement here.

It is mentioned here that the smaller the black monkey produced in Guangdong, the more expensive it is, and it can even cost tens of gold to buy one.

Since it can be bought with money, and there are transaction records, it looks like the black monkey is not something fabricated out of thin air. "

"Of course, it is already the 21st century, and it is a society dominated by science. Of course, we cannot easily determine whether a certain species exists because of the records in some ancient books. But as far as the existing information is concerned, the fur color is golden brown and the body is petite. , extremely intelligent, these are the characteristics of the black monkey, and they all coincide with the monkey mother we met today.

That's why I doubt it, and there should be some basis for it.

Lin Xuan smiled, and when he was about to continue, he suddenly saw Su Yao's barrage floating in the live broadcast room:
[Su Yao from Xiaguo Institute of Endangered Animals: Xiaoxuan, your suspicion is not only based on some grounds, it is quite well-founded.

Since you met this little monkey just now, we have extracted the footage for analysis.

After comparison, we found that this little monkey is indeed more or less inconsistent with the characteristics of the current 35 species of marmosets.

Although there is no way to be sure that this is the black monkey mentioned by the ancients, at least it should be a brand new marmoset. 】

Seeing what Su Yao said, there was an uproar in the live broadcast room.

Before, they only thought that Lin Xuan was talking about some guesses, and the discussion was a discussion, but they didn't take it to heart.

However, Su Yao's words are tantamount to pouring a ladle of ice water into Wang Gun's oil pan.

The little monkey mother that Lin Xuan found might actually be the rumored black monkey!
And if not, it could be a whole new subspecies of marmoset.

This is a new discovery!
This is big news!
(End of this chapter)