Saturday 22 August 2015

NEW MONKEY SPECIES FOUND

For nearly a century the carcass of a small, reddish-brown monkey from South America gathered dust in a windowless backroom of the American Natural History Museum in New York City. Like a morgue corpse in a drawer with the wrong toe tag, it was a victim of mistaken identity. No one realised during all those years that it was, in fact, a specimen of an unknown species. That taxonomical injustice will be rectified at the end of this month when the newly-minted Latin name of the overlooked monkey -READ MORE - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/titi-monkey-species-found-peru-045608157.html#2nncC7VAn illustration obtained on August 20, 2015 shows a Callicebus urubambensis or Urubamba brown titi monkey

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