Posted on 03/04/2003 10:59:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In the 1960s, roughly 2,500 Cat Ba Langurs lived on the island that gives the monkeys their name.
CAT BA ISLAND, Vietnam - Residents of this spectacular-but-impoverished island don't want to be known as the people who killed off one of the world's rarest monkeys. They also don't want to strangle their suddenly booming tourist economy.
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Somebody ought to start a list of species driven to extinction due to asian men's quest for "natural viagra". Sheesh.
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