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‘New monkey found in Brazilian rain forest’ At 10.1 centimetres and around 158 grams, it’s the second smallest primate ever discovered

BY MICHAEL ASTOR Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO - A Dutch scientist has discovered the world’s second- smallest monkey species in the Brazilian rain forest, a scientific plum that was literally handed to him. A man showed up on the doorstep of Marc van Roosmalen’s primate orpha- nage in Manaus, 2,900 kilometres northwest of Rio de Janeiro, in April, 1996, carrying a can containing a tiny monkey. It was mouse-sized and green- ish-gray, with a white fringe around its face, a black crown and a black tail. “As soon as I saw it I knew it was something new. But I couldn’t show my excitement because if the guy knew he had something valuable he might have kept it,” Mr. van Roosmalen said. Finding the black-headed sagui dwarf, as Mr. van Roosmalen dubbed it, was the easy part. To prove it was a new species, Mr. van Roosmalen needed to find a few more of them, but all he knew was that the monkey had been found on a boat coming down the Rio Madeira. It took him more than a year of hiking around the jungle until he located them near the Rio Aripuana.

The black-headed sagui dwarf monkey is one of seven new primate species discovered in as many years. (Associated Press)