DT NextLONDON: With their shaggy orange manes, pale blue faces and thick fur covering their hands and feet, it’s hard to mistake China’s endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys for any other animal.
These rare monkeys, native to the frigid mountains of central China, have now joined pandas as diplomatic envoys — loaned for a decade to zoos in Europe by the same state-run organisation that oversees China’s panda exchanges.
As with “panda diplomacy,” some welcome new opportunities for conservation and research, while others question the welfare of the animal ambassadors sent across the globe.
Three golden monkeys arrived at France’s Beauval Zoo in April to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between China and France. Another trio followed in May to Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium, where visitors gree
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