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Meet Likweli – the newly named monkey that hints at Congo’s hidden secrets

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par Amanda Korstjens, Professor Of Behavioural Ecology, Bournemouth University

Hearing that a new primate species has been named is exciting news for scientists because primates across the world are in decline. According to the IUCN Red list, a global inventory of animal extinction risk, 44.4% of primate species are classed as endangered or critically endangered (versus 13.2% of all mammals).

In most cases when the number of primate species increases, it is because a known species has been upgraded…

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