Near-Extinct Monkeys Rediscovered in Borneo
Wired News Friday 20th January, 2012
View all Deep in a pristine Borneo rainforest, researchers have found an endangered species of monkey recently feared to be extinct. Surveys in the late 1970s spotted the monkey, called
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