A beautiful little monkey call Bouvier ’s red colobus monkey , Piliocolobus bouvieri , had been presume extinct for ten . But two primatologists rejoin from the timberland of the Republic of the Congo have just shared the news that the rascal are alive and hanging on !
Bouvier ’s red colobus monkey was first described in 1887 , and they ’re known from just a couple of museum specimen collect from three vicinity over a hundred ago . These rapscallion are only found in the Republic of the Congo , and according to a 1949 schoolbook , they occur between the lower Likouala and Sangha Rivers , as well as along the Alima River farther in the south . Several species of red-faced colobus monkey imp are highly threatened by the bushmeat trade , and unfortunately , it does n’t serve that they do n’t flee from humans : They typically look down at them from the trees . Bouvier ’s red colobus may have been spot within the last decade , but there ’s been no confirmed sighting since the 1970s .
Guided by locals , sovereign researchers Lieven Devreese and Gaël Elie Gnondo Gobolo set out into the swampland forests of Ntokou - Pikounda National Park during February of this year in promise of establishing the statistical distribution of the uncommon , knotty rapscallion . Home to gorillas , chimpanzee , and elephants , this 4,572 - square - klick ( 1,765 hearty nautical mile ) park became a protected area in 2013 on advice from the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York .
The team ended up finding a whole group of Bouvier ’s red colobus in the trees along the Bokiba River in the park . " Our photograph are the humanity ’s first and confirm that the mintage is not nonextant , " Devreese says in anews freeing . Pictured above , you’re able to see a close - up of a mother and her babe .
" gratefully , many of these colobus monkey monkeys live on in the recently gazetted internal common and are protected from threats such as logging , agribusiness , and road , all of which can direct to increased hunt , ” Fiona Maisels of WCS says in astatement .
The duo detailed their expedition ontheir Indiegogo Thomas Nelson Page .
