Colombia’s main river redraws the map of little-known night monkeys

Mongabay
Apr 13, 2026, 7:00 am181 ptsTrendingTop
One night, 10-year-old Sebastián Montilla heard a creature moving over a tree branch on his father’s farm in Pijao, Quindío department, one of Colombia’s renowned coffee-growing regions. As he pointed a lantern up to the canopy, he saw a wild creature with big red eyes and a long tail watching him before…

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