2 New Monkey Species Found in Amazon

Newsday ^ | June 23, 2002 | MICHAEL ASTOR -- Associated Press Writer

[Willie Green]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Scientists working in Brazil's central Amazon have discovered two new monkey species that are about the size of small cats, Conservation International announced Sunday.

The monkeys were discovered by Marc Van Roosmalen, a Dutch scientist working at Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research in Manaus, 1,800 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Van Roosmalen works in a little-explored region of the Amazon near the confluence of the Madeira and Tapajos rivers.

Full scientific descriptions of the monkeys, Callicebus bernardi and Callicebus stephennashi, were published by the peer-review journal Neotropical Primates.

[Willie Green]

Often, attention is focused on species nearing extinction.

Next are those that are newly discovered.
But are these "older" species that have been around a while?
Or are NEW species evolving all the time? And if so, how frequently?

[RightWhale]

Some day, if you are king, there may be a monkey named after you. Isn't that special.

[Mr. Bungle]

[Bon mots]

Hey, you turned this into a Hillary thread... not me!! So...

Q: What's black and brown and would look good on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?
A: Answer

[Paul Atreides]

I wasn't going to do this, but since you started it....

[Paul Atreides]

What is so funny, other than your joke, is that it looks like her as well.

[Willie Green]

Some day, if you are king, there may be a monkey named after you. Isn't that special.

"King Willie" has a nice ring to it.
But I already have the monkeys:

Green Monkeys
.

[ASA Vet]

confirmed they are new species.

Attn: FR Biologists

How do you confirm a new species, rather than just a different varity?

If they can breed with the group across the river,
they're not a different species even if they look different.
So how does the biologist determine they are a truely different species?
DNA?

[Dog Gone]

I was in Costa Rica last week plowing through the jungle (oops, sorry, RAIN FOREST) on an ATV when a Howler Monkey apparently took offense at the disturbance we were causing. He pooped into his own hand and flung it my older brother who was slightly ahead of me.

This was unfortunate on two accounts. First, it barely missed him, and second, I didn't have my camera ready.

I tried to convince the monkey to do it again, but neither he nor my brother were apparently willing to re-enact that MasterCard Moment.

[Willie Green]

I tried to convince the monkey to do it again, but neither he nor my brother were apparently willing to re-enact that MasterCard Moment.

I'm sure your brother would've been willing to do the flinging if you could get the monkey to take the picture.

[bluefish]

Heh heh.. I clicked on the haadline only because I knew this picture would be here!

[Dog Gone]

So true, so true.

[Willie Green]

when a Howler Monkey apparently took offense at the disturbance we were causing.

Hey! They have one named after you, too! ;^)

[Brilliant]

Personally, I would have named them after Daschle and Gephardt.

[DainBramage]

Monkey On Your Back

[Sabertooth]

"King Willie" has a nice ring to it.

Kinda been done before...

[Willie Green]

It's a shame Dad had to abdicate.

[RightWhale]

Remember, these are our cousins. Monkeys are like children that never grew up.

[resistance]

My wife says "That picture is really being mean to the monkeys!