Celebrating the Year of the Monkey: Photos

Gong Xi Fa Cai and welcome to the Year of the Monkey, which starts today. It is the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar, which is based on phases of the moon.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, we are highlighting some of the most noteworthy monkeys, starting with the lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis), a newly discovered Congo-based monkey with a human-like face.

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Anthropologist Eric Sargis of Yale University co-authored a PLOS ONE paper about lesula and said that "if we're finding new species of primates, then who knows how many new species of small mammals or lizards or insects, just to name a few, might be out there. There's certainly a lot of undiscovered biodiversity in this region (an evergreen Congo forest between the Lomami and Tshuapa rivers)."


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