{"id":702725,"date":"2026-07-21T03:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:43:21","slug":"democratic-republic-of-congo-new-monkey-species-officially-recognised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702725\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Republic of Congo: New monkey species officially recognised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team think that the animals are rare and are restricted to a part of the forest where they can find the food and habitat they need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also have a distinctive &#8220;roaring&#8221; call, with Amboko saying: &#8220;You often hear them, but don&#8217;t see them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The researchers also believe the monkeys have been hunted in the past, so they hope that now they are classified as a distinct species, the monkeys can be officially protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Kate Detwiler, from Florida Atlantic University, believes that their bright facial markings could be a visual signal to other animals, to maybe make them attractive to a mate or for the animals to be able to identify each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The researchers say they still have a lot of questions about this newly described, secretive species and want carry out a more detailed survey to estimate their population and study their behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team think that the animals are rare and are restricted to a part of the forest where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-702725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}