Mysterious new monkey species with orange lips discovered…
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Mysterious new monkey species with orange lips discovered in the Congo rainforest
>A new species of colobus monkey, known locally as likweli, has been discovered in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Described in PLOS One, this is only the fifth new species of African monkey to be described in the last 75 years.
>The small monkey, named Colobus congoensis, has conspicuous orange lips. Slate grey cheek bones frame black-rimmed eyes, with a body doused in silky black fur and a white patch around the anus.
>The first hint that a new primate species could be hiding in the dense forests of the Lomami National Park came in 2008, when conservationists snapped a blurry image of an unidentified primate during an expedition. After a second sighting in 2018, researchers launched a mission to find and describe the mysterious monkey.
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>A new species of colobus monkey, known locally as likweli, has been discovered in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Described in PLOS One, this is only the fifth new species of African monkey to be described in the last 75 years.
>The small monkey, named Colobus congoensis, has conspicuous orange lips. Slate grey cheek bones frame black-rimmed eyes, with a body doused in silky black fur and a white patch around the anus.
>The first hint that a new primate species could be hiding in the dense forests of the Lomami National Park came in 2008, when conservationists snapped a blurry image of an unidentified primate during an expedition. After a second sighting in 2018, researchers launched a mission to find and describe the mysterious monkey.
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