This is the face of a Black Snub-nosed Monkey. The nose looks to me like it should belong to a bat rather than a simian. This morning I tried to look up why a monkey would evolve such an unusual nasal shape, and found some reports that bat noses are used in their echolocation process. I knew about the ears, but hadn't thought about the source of the sonar, which apparently - at least in some species - is emitted by the nose.
So, back to this monkey's nose. Does he/she use it to produce sounds? There must be some major evolutionary advantage, because losing the external prominence means losing the thermal warming a nose would provide, and much of the particulate filtering, which might be disadvantages. I haven't found anything, but don't have time to search far. Perhaps someone out there knows...
Via Zumbi.
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