Eight species, including Tapanuli orangutan, make first appearance on list of most endangered primates

Mongabay
Oct 8, 2019, 3:57 pm403 pts
When the Tapanuli orangutan was discovered in 2017 in the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, it became the eighth known species of great ape in the world (including humans). The last time a new great ape species was described to science was when the bonobo was found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in…

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