FAU-Led Team Behind New Monkey Species Discovery In Congo
Researchers said the monkey is only the fifth new African species identified in 75 years and faces habitat loss and hunting.
- Scientists confirmed the existence of Colobus congoensis, a new monkey species officially documented this week in the journal PLOS One, marking only the fifth such identification in Africa in the past 75 years.
- The Mituku people have long called the animal "kasaba nkoni," meaning branch-shaker, while conservationists from the Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation documented initial sightings in 2008 and logged 114 field observations across roughly 1,700 square kilometers.
- Weighing about 15 pounds and stretching around four feet, the primate possesses sleek black fur and a distinctive orange-cream facial patch, with genetic evidence linking it to Colobus species found over 1,200 kilometers away.
- Researchers recommend classifying the species as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, as its range covers only around 650 square miles and faces mounting pressure from habitat loss and hunting.
- Discovering a primate species is exceptionally rare, said Julia Arenson, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale's Department of Anthropology, noting that the discovery involves populations previously unknown to science.
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FAU-Led Team Behind New Monkey Species Discovery In Congo
BOCA RATON, FL — A striking, mostly black monkey with vivid orange-cream lips and a mask-like face has been hiding in a remote stretch of the Congo rainforest. It took nearly two decades of research, and a team that runs through Boca Raton, to prove it was a species the world had never formally recognized. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, has iden…
This article was first published via Cedarnews.net. For more exclusive news and reports, visit us on our website. Junior Amboko has orange lips and is called “Liquile” by locals. A monkey with a black face and pink orange lips lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scientists have found that it belongs to a previously unknown species. The monkey was spotted and pictures were taken of it hiding among the tops of tall trees …
Scientists Just Discovered a New Monkey Species Hiding in the Congo Rainforest
Scientists have just confirmed the existence of an entirely new monkey species in the Congo rainforest. The monkey, for its part, looks like it would have preferred to stay undiscovered. Meet Colobus congoensis, now officially the newest primate species on record, confirmed this week in the journal PLOS One by a team of researchers from […] The post Scientists Just Discovered a New Monkey Species Hiding in the Congo Rainforest appeared first on …
Blurred photos are often used as alleged evidence of mysterious creatures such as Lake Ness Monster and Bigfoot. But the subject of a erased photo taken almost two decades ago in remote Congo forests — a strange orange-faced monkey — proved authentic. Now, he was officially recognized as a new species, just the fifth new African monkey described in the last 75 years.
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new species of monkey in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after nearly two decades of research. The unusual primate, with a black face and distinctive orange-pink lips, was first spotted in 2008, but has only now been officially identified as a previously unknown species. The monkey lives in the Lomami National Park area, in the east-central part of Congo, and is known to local residen…
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