Callicebus caquetensis: A New Species of Titi Monkey Discovered
An adult Caquetá titi monkey (Callicebus caquetensis)
A new species of titi monkey has been discovered in a Colombian Amazon expedition. Caquetá titi monkey or Callicebus caquetensis is about the size of a domestic cat with a bushy red beard. Totaling to only about 250 individuals, this newly discovered species is also critically endangered due to severe fragmentation of its habitat.
Along with the news of the discovery is the published paper by Defler et al. (2010), Callicebus caquetensis: A New and Critically Endangered Titi Monkey from Southern Caquetá, Colombia (free pdf). In it, they described the morphology and distribution of the Callicebus caquetensis.
An adult Caquetá titi monkey (Callicebus caquetensis)
For more about the discovery, read Pictures: Bushy-Bearded Titi Monkey Discovered on National Geographic.
Originally posted on The Prancing Papio.
[...] Nothing better for a critically endangered monkey than a 1,152-km seismic survey!There’s a new species of Titi monkey. It purrs. And it lives in an area where Pacific Rubiales Corp. and Talisman Energy [...]
Pacific Rubiales, Talisman get the cute fuzzy monkey! « Setty's notebook
August 13, 2010 at 10:59 am
They aren’t the only creatures in the area that purr. Oil exploration licenses for the southern patch have already been given out.
http://settysoutham.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/pacific-rubiales-talisman-get-the-cute-fuzzy-monkey/
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August 13, 2010 at 11:03 am