Scientists discover a ‘remarkable’ new monkey species with orange lips and a froglike roar– www.scientificamerican.com
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A “remarkable” African monkey with a distinct orange patch around its mouth and a deep, croaky roar, found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is in fact a new species—and possibly already endangered.
The new species, Colobus congoensis, or Likweli, was discovered in Congo’s Lomami National Park and is closely related to its “sister” species, the black colobus. Before now, the monkey was a familiar sight to local communities, but scientists had never formally described it.
Now, in a new paper published on Wednesday in PLOS One, researchers have confirmed with genetic analyses that C. congoensis is a new species. It is just the fifth new African monkey species identified in the past 75 years.
