{"id":805599,"date":"2026-07-16T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:20:09","slug":"a-new-monkey-specieslikweli-is-found-in-the-congolese-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805599\/","title":{"rendered":"A new monkey species,\u2018Likweli,\u2019 is found in the Congolese rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MS2FVFNGE5D7LMR6WH5UP425S4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Deep in the Congolese rainforest, scientists have discovered a new species of monkey so elusive even local communities knew little of its existence.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BVNYVLZCKFDUBHBP2XOVCD3WJM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dubbed \u201cLikweli,\u201d it sports a black coat, a pink and orange mouth and a low, roaring call. Scientists estimate the monkeys weigh about 15 pounds, similar to a small dog, and span around four feet in length from nose to tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep in the Congolese rainforest, scientists have discovered a new species of monkey so elusive even local communities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-805599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}