New Large Monkey Species Discovered In Amazon Rainforest - AAP

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An Auckland University researcher has discovered a new species of monkey living in the Amazon region. "Finding a relatively large monkey as a new species these days is pretty cool,'' said Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the university's anthropology department. "It shows how little we really know about the biodiversity of the Amazon.''

Boubli said the discovery was one of the most exciting and important of his career. The find has been announced in the New Scientist magazine and will be detailed in the International Journal of Primatology in July. The discovery was a result of a series of surveys conducted by Boubli from 1991-2007 which focussed on the little known and hard to reach Pantepui region of Brazil.

Boubli said he found the animal after following native Yanomamo Indians on their hunts along the Rio Araca, a tributary of the Rio Negro in Brazil. "They told us about this black uakari monkey, which was slightly different to the one we knew from Pico de Neblina National Park, where I'd worked earlier,'' said Boubli, the university's only primatologist.

"I searched for that monkey for at least five years. The reason I couldn't find it was because the place where they were was sort of unexpected.'' Uakaris normally live in flooded river forests, but this one turned up in a mountainous region on the Brazil-Venezuela border.

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[Parche]

1. They Found Jeb Bush?

:rofl: :hi:

[juno jones]

4. God whatta face

As a mother, all I can think of is..."Ahhhh...whassa matter punkin? Now open wide so the plane can fly into the hanger....ahhh...I know, this gruel tastes awful, but wuzza, wuzza wuzza, etc. Hey, stop spitting!"

Freud woulda had a field day with these two. God knows they both got the chicken-wire mama.

[smoogatz]

2. "It was delicious," Boubil noted.

"We made a lovely sauce with white wine, garlic and capers, and sauteed the monkey-meat until tender."

Monkey meat. Yum.

[Brotherjohn]

3. You can bet cryptozoologists are already saying it confirms that Bigfoot could be real.

"New large monkey discovered in Amazon!? See! Undiscovered large primates ARE still out there!"