Hairless Monkey is Hairless
I found this one one of those random image sites some time ago, and I still can’t figure out what the fuck is it:
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I did some googling and I can’t find any info on any species of hairless primates (well, other than us humans). But maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Is it just a monkey that went bold? Is it suffering from some genetic condition? Kinda like some sort of reverse hypertrichosis?
I need some zoologists and/or cryptozoologists come here and give me some answers now.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 4:04 am (3427) [Quote]
I think somebody fell into a vat of Nair.
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 4:09 am (3429) [Quote]
im quite sure its a Gargoyle! i mean, look at his face, he dosent even look like a monkey!
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 am (3433) [Quote]
Eilleen - I actually had to look up Nair. It’s a depilatory cream, right?
Which of course brings up another possibility here - maybe someone just shaved a monkey and snapped the picture for shits and giggles.
mrjones - aren’t Gargoyles supposed to have wings or something?
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm (3437) [Quote]
Yup, it’s a depilatory. I don’t know if shaving the monkey would result in his/her skin looking like that–unless someone decided not to put any sunscreen on him/her and the poor monkey was left out in the sun to bake.
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm (3438) [Quote]
Hmm… You know, I have no clue what monkey skin looks like. I think chimpanzees and gorillas have dark skin - at least by looking at their faces, hands and feet. Some monkeys do have light skin, I think…
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 8:00 pm (3448) [Quote]
Hmmm when i first saw that photo I thought it was fake, man made, something along the lines of a Gargoyle perhaps. tho honestly it is kinda hard to tell, I truly hope tho it is not a monkey someone shaved or whatever. It could be some kind of birth defeat or illness but I still think it is fake. It is just too muscular looking to look real to me. Most primates are not, people included unless they try to be!!
As to humans being hairless actually we are not, we are covered in hair, usually a very fine “fuzz” but in some of the more unfortunate usually males of our species it is quite clearly FUR. My last employer falls under that category… sadly for him i might add.
Anyway the great apes all have light skin not dark as commonly thought. I’ve always been fascinated with human evolution so I kinda knew that but a google search reveals several sources that fact.
However, I can’t swear to the skin color of other primates. Not hardly a primatologists ya know. Personally I’ve never even met a chimp just a couple of monkeys here and there and lots of humans.
still I’m voting for that monkey is fake, odd tho ya brought this up as i stumbled across that pic myself sometime ago pondered it for a while and then went on with my random internet exploration. lmao
Posted usingMarch 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm (3449) [Quote]
Interesting. I assumed their skin was dark because of their faces and etc… But then I do recall seeing pictures of baby chimpanzees with light skin.
Hmm….
Posted usingMarch 26th, 2007 at 11:21 pm (3508) [Quote]
I’ve seen this one and other pictures of hairless chimps.
Posted usingI think it’s just an anomaly, like humans with hair all over their faces.
Imagine this creature in a charred flight suit with its ears burned off along with its hair–what would it look like? We did use chimps as part of the space program. What if one or more fell to earth–say in Roswell, NM? What would you think it was?
March 26th, 2007 at 11:44 pm (3509) [Quote]
Heh… Good point Tod. That would look pretty weird.
Posted usingSeptember 13th, 2007 at 11:43 pm (6187) [Quote]
I googled hairless monkey, because last night I had a dream of one. And your link came up first. What strikes me as truly frightening is that this pic looks exactly like my dream. His expression is so intense. I am getting chills right now. In my dream he was in the middle of the street where I grew up and I had to save him from the cars and traffic. I was not afraid but I knew my duty was to get him out of there. Later I dreamt that Owen wilson’s brother died, but his name was Christian Wilson… none such person exists and further more, why did I dream of Owen Wilson? TRuly bizarre. I just wanted to say, that I dreamt about this very hairless monkey last night. I have no idea what that means.
Posted usingSeptember 14th, 2007 at 12:17 am (6189) [Quote]
Oh wow… I have no clue what that means, but it’s pretty funny that you dreamed about this very monkey.
Posted usingDecember 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pm (7546) [Quote]
This appears to be a rhesus (Macaca mulatta) or another variety of macaque monkey suffering from mange, and the resulting loss of hair due to that condition.
As to the comments about chimpanzee skin color, the various subspecies have differences, from light to dark, as well as it changing depending on age and health.
Loren Coleman, author, cryptozoologist
Posted usingDecember 30th, 2007 at 9:27 pm (7547) [Quote]
Oh wow! Good catch. It does indeed look like a rhesus. I didn’t think of mange. I feel bad for the poor thing now.
Cryptomundo FTW!
Posted usingFebruary 15th, 2008 at 10:23 pm (8135) [Quote]
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Posted usingMarch 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm (8331) [Quote]
Mabye it has been subject to experiments? I always thought monkeys were super strong.. prolly why he looks so buff..
Posted usingJune 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm (9370) [Quote]
This picture looks like the family of man…does the physique of this monkey speak at all to evolution or am i just over reacting?
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