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New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 20, 2026
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Brehms Tierleben (1927) / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

An international team found a new species of Colobus monkey. This team includes researchers from Yale. The monkey lives high in the forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is only the fifth new African monkey found in 75 years. The monkey is small and black. It has orange and cream marks …

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