The news delighted the experts. -Is the macaque back?
Xinglong County is the northernmost boundary of natural distribution of macaques in China. For this, I consulted some historical materials, which are recorded in Xinglong County Records and China Atlas of Endangered Wild Animals. Macaques are naturally afraid of cold, and mainly inhabit the Yangtze River valley in China and its vast area to the south. Some people in academic circles think that the northern boundary of the distribution of macaques should be the line from northern Henan to Taihang Mountain in southern Shanxi to Zhongtiao Mountain, that is, the 37-degree north latitude line. In fact, they underestimated the survival ability of macaques, and they still survived well in the mountains along the 40-degree north latitude line along the Great Wall. Liu Guangsheng, an ecological expert, believes that the macaques that reappear in Xinglong should be Jidong macaques, also known as "Zhili macaques" and "Jidong long-haired monkeys", which belong to independent populations. /kloc-at the end of 0/9 century, foreign missionaries captured several macaques from the wild in eastern Hebei and brought them abroad, and kept them in zoos in London and Paris for many years. The specimens are kept in the British Museum of Natural History. In the Qing Dynasty, Xinglong was a forbidden place for "Houlong Fengshui", and groups of macaques appeared in the mountains. 1972, a female macaque was captured by a folk iron clip in Shimentai village and sent to Chengde for mating. 1977, a villager killed a macaque in Sara village, Liu Liping, skinned it and nailed it to his wall. Since then, there has been no news of macaques. Macaques, the spirits of nature, mysteriously disappeared in the mountains.