AI Generated Image
Watch: What we know about newly discovered monkey species
BBC • • world
Key Points:
- A new monkey species with pinkish-orange lips and a black face has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- The primate was found in the high tree canopy of dense tropical forests within Lomami National Park in the country's central east.
- Initial sightings occurred in 2008, but it took another sighting a decade later for an international team to study and confirm the species.
- Dr. Karen Laurenson of the Frankfurt Zoological Society highlighted the discovery as evidence that much of the natural world remains unexplored.
