The Good News: A New Monkey Is Discovered; The Bad News: It Is Already at Risk

[zonkers]

Source: Scientific American



A new monkey is swinging through the Amazon rainforests—at least it's new to scientists. Unfortunately, the future of this mini monkey, weighing in at just 7.5 ounces (213 grams) and nine inches (23 centimeters) tall, is already threatened by human development. The discovery of Mura's saddleback tamarin was announced today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York City and published online in the International Journal of Primatology.

"We keep finding new species of plants, insects and butterflies. But it is more and more difficult to find newer species of mammals," says Avecita Chicchón, director of WCS's Latin American and Caribbean Program, unable to suppress her excitement about the new rabbit-size primate. "It is our relative, albeit a little more distant than the gorilla. Looking into its eyes is like looking in the mirror."

The new subspecies of saddleback tamarin is gray and brown in color, with a mottled back and long tail. It is named for the Mura Indians who populate the remote Purus and Madeira river basins where the monkey lives. At this point, scientists have no way of knowing just how many roam the region....

Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-monkey-saddleback-tamarin-amazon-development

[xchrom]

1. amazing. -- tamarins are so beautiful. nt

[RandomThoughts]

2. Is this a reference to the movie ID4

Looking into its eyes is like looking in the mirror

The aliens in that film had mirrors for eyes.

Of coarse who are the people that published the article.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/104389/
Published by
http://www.springer-sbm.de/index.php?id=165

Who have the following interconnections in their management

Dr. Arno Mahlert Chairman of the Specialist Publishing Group’s Supervisory Board
Dr. Arno Mahlert, CEO of maxingvest ag, Hamburg, and Supervisory Board Chairman of Springer Science+Business Media S.A., Luxemburg, was appointed the new Supervisory Board Chairman of GfK AG.
Gfk Ag is the 4th biggest marketing company in the world.
http://www.gfk.com/group/press_information/press_releases/003041/index.en.html
http://www.gfk.com/

as a sample of gfk here is a web page of a india group they recently upped stock ownership to 50.1%
http://in.nielsen.com/site/index.shtml

Just because it is in a scientific journal does not mean that it might have another purpose or tied in with marketing or attempts at sculpting societal opinions.

[scheming daemons]

3. new species are generating all the time, and others are going extinct all the time

...and it has been that way since life first sprouted on earth.


It's just the way nature works.

[alfredo]

5. Republikaner Assholus is becoming extinct.

[scheming daemons]

6. But at least they're going out in a blaze of glory......not quietly..

[alfredo]

8. It is entertaining on some level.

[NickB79]

7. Unfortunately, our activities have caused the natural rate of extinction to skyrocket

"Extinction rates are rising by a factor of up to 1,000 above natural rates."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Rate-of-Extinction-3-Species-per-Hour-55411.shtml

Technically, we are at the point where many biologists are publicly stating we're creating a new mass extinction event.

[timeforpeace]

4. Time to break out the radio tracking collars. You know, to "save" them.