A black snub-nosed monkey is pictured in the Baima Snow Mountain State Nature Reserve in Weixi, southwest China's Yunnan Province, October 22, 2009. The number of the animal that is under state first-class protection has grown from 1,000 in 2000 to 1,500, nearly 70 percent of the world's total, in the nature reserve, because of the much better environment. [Xinhua]

Black snub-nosed monkeys are pictured in the Baima Snow Mountain State Nature Reserve in Weixi, southwest China's Yunnan Province, October 22, 2009.  [Xinhua]