the typical Indian slim-monkey (Languren), the Hulman, appears according to area in approximately 15 subtypes, that differ above all in the fur-coloring as well as in beard and mop of hair-ornament.
Culture-history The Hulman is embodied Hanuman of the Hindu mythology, to which whole monkey-flocks are assigned in some temple-installations of India as sacred animals, in the monkey-God that unchecked, yes as divine incarnation of the believers admires, the masters of its district are. These fashionable, grey-haired creatures with the golden eyes never participate bettlerisch in the "noble" working, black face in the behavior so pushy and rowdy-like like approximately rhesus-monkeys.
Albeit also it so, Z. B. in Benares, monkey-temple with rhesus-monkeys gives, so however the Hulman is the actual sacred monkey India. it can swipe the hawker of its fruit-offer something undisturbed, it can along-do gymnastics on the roofs - for example the railway station-buildings -, can grasp through the latticed compartment-windows seeking and plunder the mangos in the gardens.
The mango-plum has to at all still do from other view with the Hulman. In the Ramayana, one of the Indian national-epics, that each village-child knows in the deep south and high north of India, the giant-monster steals Ravana the king-son Rama its wife Sita and abducts it after Ceylon (today Sri Lanka). Freed Sita from the force of the giants the clever monkey-people, however, whose imaginative and noble-thinking minister Hanuman might not watch inactively this evil, and stole, typically monkey-quickly, in turning away still the mango-fruit from the giants gardens and brought it to India, d. h. for the first time to the people. The giant-king wanted to burn Hanuman to the penalty on the pyre, but the clever monkey could escaped and carries the black burnt hands and the black scorched countenance since then.
In addition, the Hulman also fits representatively into the belief in renaissance and reincarnation of the devout Hindu, especially since liked to turn the rising sun it early in the morning sits there and itself leaves heat up after the night cool for it. So, it seems nice to the sunbathe-adoring Hindu also from this view.
Shape, behavior Only in younger time, one explored the social-life of the Hulmans in such temple-installations and in forest-areas under homestead-conditions. This up to 21 kg heavy and until animals big to 108 cm leap under exploitation of the feather-strength of accordingly strong branches over until clearings wide to 10 m. With it and also with the long sentences at the ground plays an important role as tax and balance-organ the long tail. With the run from the ground, it is held in unmistakable manner in form of a cup-handle after behind-above. The schlankgliedrige monkey possesses only small thumbs, but strengthens, long fingers, that favor the springy jumping through the treetops.
Social-lives The social-life of the Languren either happens in so-called one-man-groups or in pure men's-groups. In the one-man-groups, the single male occupies the "boss-position", and only these "bosses" can get offspring why there is an active contest for this boss-position with the pure men's-groups. Approximately every two years takes place a male-change in the boss-position.
After such a change, the maybe amazingly appearing phenomenon of the child-killing frequently occurs: The new male kills the descendants of its predecessor. This strange appearing behavior quite makes a biological sense: The females become again much faster conception-ready after the loss of the children, and the male, who must reckon with it, to be also replaced once again after two years can increase its reproductive-success so.
Child-development The babies wear a black hair-dress at first, that slowly itself into the beautiful silver-gray of the adult umfärbt until the third year of life. They are around-carried approximately for five weeks, frequently not from the own mother but from other group-members that passes on the children among each other. Which advantage this behavior could have, one doesn't yet know until now.
It was also observed that rarely doesn't abuse the children, d. h. stepped or is pushed, in fact sometimes even from the own mother. Apparently, the children don't carry any serious damage on that occasion from it. To what a such behavior could be however good, still also is fully unsolved until now.
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