How scientists tracked down a new monkey species in the Congo rainforest

The 'Likweli' marks the second species discovered in the past 15 years around the Lomami River, in a remote and thickly ...
Science Daily

New African monkey species identified: Lesula found in one of Congo's last biologically unexplored forest blocks

Researchers have identified a new species of African monkey, locally known as the lesula. This is only the second new species of African monkey discovered in the last 28 years. Researchers have ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet the World’s Newest Monkey Species

Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) is the world’s newest species of monkey. Hailing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesula is only the second new monkey species discovered in Africa over ...
The Guardian

If the lesula is a newly discovered monkey, why is it so oddly familiar?

This photograph of the newly identified species of monkey Cercopithecus lomamiensis – thank God science still keeps the Latin language alive in its rules of nomenclature, although if you prefer the ...
Environment News Service

Rare Discovery: New Monkey Species Identified in Africa

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 12, 2012 (ENS) – Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey in a remote forested part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, only the second new ...
The Guardian

Rembrandt's monkey: good news for Africa's newest primate

Camera traps in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveal that Africa’s lesula monkey is ‘one of the few good news stories in primatology’ It all started with Georgette’s pet monkey. Deep in the ...