A black monkey with a pinkish-orange patch around its mouth was photographed in a Congo forest canopy in 2008, detected 114 times between 2018 and 2022, and only then named Colobus congoensis — by its describers’ count, the fifth African monkey species new to science in 75 years

Two communities had names for the animal before it had a Latin one. The paper describing Colobus congoensis rests on three confiscated bodies, two mitochondrial haplotypes and 114 detections, and it hedges harder than the announcement of it did. The post A black monkey with a pinkish-orange patch around its mouth was photographed in a Congo forest canopy in 2008, detected 114 times between 2018 and 2022, and only then named Colobus congoensis — by its describers’ count, the fifth African monkey species new to science in 75 years appeared first on Space Daily .