New photos show an adorable, rare \u2018L\u2019Hoest\u2019 monkey born at Edinburgh Zoo.<\/p>\n
The baby arrived to parents Sheli and Jamal, after a five month gestation period.<\/p>\n
The infant is currently unnamed, but keepers will select a name once they are able to determine the monkey\u2019s sex in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Adorable new photos released by the zoo show the infant clinging to mum Sheli as she perches on branches around her enclosure.<\/p>\n
It will stay clinging to its mother for several months, but will remain dependent on her for around two years.<\/p>\n
New photos show an adorable, rare \u2018L\u2019Hoest\u2019 monkey born at Edinburgh Zoo. Royal Zoological SocietyScotland \/ SWNS<\/p>\n
The baby monkey will stay clinging to its mother for several months, but will remain dependent on her for around two years. Royal Zoological SocietyScotland \/ SWNS<\/p>\n
The infant is currently unnamed, but keepers will select a name once they are able to determine the monkey\u2019s sex in the coming weeks. Royal Zoological SocietyScotland \/ SWNS<\/p>\n
Currently, the infant\u2019s fur is a pale shade of orange, which will darken to the typical shade of black at around three months old.<\/p>\n
L\u2019Hoest\u2019s monkeys are native to Central and East Africa, and are nicknamed \u201cmountain monkeys\u201d due to their preference for high-altitude forests.<\/p>\n
They are currently classed as Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s Red List, due to habitat loss from agriculture and logging, as well as hunting for bushmeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New photos show an adorable, rare \u2018L\u2019Hoest\u2019 monkey born at Edinburgh Zoo. The baby arrived to parents Sheli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,12841,79,9121,201,965,30519],"class_list":["post-209425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-monkeys","tag-science","tag-scotland","tag-wildlife","tag-world-news","tag-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}