mindblowingscience: Congo Monkey Spotted Decades After Species’...
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vivian
on sexta-feira, abril 24, 2015
mindblowingscience:
Welcome back, Bouvier’s red colobus monkey. It’s been a while.
The African primate hasn’t been seen since the 1970s and was assumed to have become extinct.
But, in a statement released late last week, the Wildlife Conservation Society says two primatologists working in the forests of the Republic of Congo were successful in a quest begun in February to confirm reports that Bouvier’s is still out there. They returned with a first-ever snapshot of a mother and infant.
“Our photos are the world’s first and confirm that the species is not extinct,” Lieven Devreese, one of the field researchers, was quoted in the WCS statement as saying.
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