CHINA'S GOLDEN MONKEYS ARE THE NEW ‘PANDA DIPLOMACY’

With their distinctive shaggy orange manes, pale blue faces and dense fur covering their hands and feet, it’s hard to mistake China’s endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys for any other animal.

- Associated Press

These rare and charismatic monkeys, unique to the frigid mountains of central China, have recently joined the country’s famous pandas as furry envoys to zoos in Europe for the first time —on loan for 10 years from the same government-overseen group that coordinates official panda exchanges.