Researchers have identified a new species of African monkey, locally known as the lesula. This is only the second new species of African monkey discovered in the last 28 years. Researchers have ...

A Florida Atlantic University professor is among a team of researchers who discovered a new species of African monkey.The lesula monkey, formally known as Cercopithecus lomamiensis, was discovered in ...

Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo – an animal well-known to local hunters but until now, unknown to ...

In 2007, in a humid and remote part of the rainforest in the Lomani Basin in central Democratic Republic of Congo, a team of scientists discovered a brand new species of monkey with the help of ...

A new species of African monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Commonly known as Lesula, the new species of monkey — which feeds on fruit and vegetation — has a hairless face ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 12, 2012 (ENS) – Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey in a remote forested part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, only the second new ...

(OurAmazingPlanet) A shy, brightly colored monkey species has been found living in the lush rainforests at the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a find that utterly surprised the researchers ...

You might want to offer this African monkey a bouquet of arrowroot, its favorite snack. He deserves it: Known as a lesula, the monkey was recently confirmed as a distinct species by Kate Detwiler ’95 ...

It would seem difficult to overlook something as large as a new species of monkey, but scientists had no idea about the lesula until just a few years ago when conservation biologist John Hart ...