A NEW MONKEY

Scientists have found a new monkey species in remote central Congo, where bush meat hunting and habitat loss threaten their survival.

It is one of only two new species of African monkey discovered since the mid-1980s.

The slender, medium-sized primate—called a Lesula (luh-SOO-la) and roughly similar to a vervet monkey—represents a rare discovery of a previously undocumented mammal, and helps establish this sparsely settled region of the Democratic Republic of Congo as an important source of biodiversity, researchers says.