Newly described monkey species found in threatened Amazon forest

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisMar 6, 2015, 3:30 pm55 pts
In 2011, Julio César Dalponte noticed a peculiar looking titi monkey on the bank of the Roosevelt River in Mato Grasso, Brazil. Titi monkeys, genus Callicebus, are common throughout South America, but this one had a flaming orange tail, light gray forehead stripe and ochre sideburns, which didn’t match any…

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