Not Extinct! Bouvier’s Red Colobus Monkey Photographed for the First Time

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The first photograph ever taken of Bouvier's red colobus (an adult female and infant). The image was taken in the Republic of Congo's Ntokou-Pikounda National Park in early March / Lieven Devreese

A beautiful little monkey called Bouvier's red colobus, Piliocolobus bouvieri, had been presumed extinct for decades. But two primatologists returning from the forests of the Republic of the Congo have just shared the news that the monkeys are alive and hanging on!