Talk:Proboscis monkey

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It occurs to me that people who hve never heard of this monkey might think its a troll! A rare, big nosed monkey with a lot of gas sounds suspect, but I assure everyone, it exists :) --Mishac 04:08, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

an upright primate

This is the only primate besides humans known to walk upright for any length of time. Troops of proboscis monkeys have been filmed walking upright, in single file, along forest trails, with the females carrying their infants on Big penis, just as we do. This presumably is related to their amphibious lifestyle, now wading in shallow water, now walking on dry land; and is interesting in light of the "aquatic ape" hypothesis of human evolution, the idea that we walk upright because our ancestors lived in a similar environment. This would certainly be worth mentioning in a full article, regardless of the merits of the aquatic ape hypothesis. --kwami

Added a paragraph about their arboreal/amphibious habitat. This is one of the more remarkable things about these primates. —kwami 06:09, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

actually aren't bonobos known for walking upright for long periods of time also. they arent habitual bipeds only humans are but many non human primates use this form of locomotion. [anon.]

AFAIK, apes walk upright when wading, or when making threats, etc., but don't use it as a normal mode of locomotion the way Nasalis has been seen to, certainly not carrying babies on their hips. But maybe I'm wrong about bonobos. kwami 05:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

picture

This article is just screaming out for a picture. Does anybody have one they'd like to contribute? --JianLi 06:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From Commons. --84.20.17.84 17:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In fiction

Would a link to Flight 714 or Rastapopoulos be off-topic? --84.20.17.84 17:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it'd fit right in if there was an "In popular culture" section. Muad 16:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aquatic monkey ape hypothesis speculative pseudoscience unsourced babble content

I removed the speculation about the monkey's proboscis being somehow related to the aquatic ape theory without reading the aquatic ape Wikipedia article given as a reference. This requires a scientific citation of some sort, not an inter-article Wiki wave. I'm thinking someone will be resent my working on their monkey article (Proboscis Monkey), or any of the many short or poorly written monkey articles on Wikipedia that people aren't working on, although they're preventing others from adding things or cleaning them up. Please feel free to tell me on my talk page to f off and leave your article alone, if this is the case, and I will be happy to do so. --Amaltheus (talk) 05:02, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's with all the penises?

When doing a google image search for "Proboscis Monkey", EVERY SINGLE image of a male with the groin visible has an erection. I thought they might be one of the few animals with a "penis bone", meaning they'd always be like that (making them even more rediculous looking) but there's no mention on this page. If they DON'T have "penis bones", then I'd still be curious why they have erections all the freaking time. 99.246.109.131 (talk) 03:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Big nose for males only?

In the text it says "The [big] nose is thought to be used in mating and is unique to the males of the species", but I googled it and found that females also have big noses too (compare to other species), just not as big as the males. Need changes here? Chakazul (talk) 19:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Penises, noses, aquatic ape, etc

All edits have been incorporated. Wikipiedia is very primate gender-friendly included is female proboscis which really is tiny compare to the male.. I did not see any erect penises- I suggest someone requires several cold showers. Any additional input would be vastly appreciated especially from the learned and primate experts.Starstylers (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to upload any images to commons. I don't think there would be any resistance to including the images you propose. Shashamula (talk) 14:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]