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Jed Weingarten

The earliest reference to the monkey in Chinese literature is a 2,200-year-old description of an "odd-nosed animal with a long tail".

Unless conservation measures are taken, several species of snub-nosed monkeys may go extinct in the next 50 years.

The big cat roams the mountains of China's Szechuan Province. Seeing the snow leopard's eyes for the first time is "a sight that will remain embedded in my memory forever," Weingarten says.

A bird attempts to feed on the snow leopard's kill.

Snow leopard feeding

A white-headed langur grooms a juvenile in a tree in China's Chongzuo EcoPark.