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Sits out a Chinese winter in the snow, eating lichen off bark.
Through winter there is nothing green in the canopy, so the troop switches to lichen — a food so poor in energy that the animals must eat for most of the daylight hours to break even. They stay in the trees, huddle in the cold, and wait out temperatures well below freezing without descending or migrating.
Troops can exceed a hundred animals and occasionally aggregate into bands several hundred strong, one of the largest gatherings of any non-human primate. The forests they depend on are fragmented across a few mountain ranges in central China, and the surviving patches are separated by valleys the monkeys will not cross.
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