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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging activities in tropical Africa may pose hidden health risks to wildlife and humans according to a veterinary pathobiologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mexican canyon serves as key refuge for endangered spider monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A picturesque canyon in Chiapas, Mexico is serving as an important refuge for the northernmost population of Spider monkeys, reports a study published in the June issue of <i>Tropical conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-munoz_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare golden primates help speed recovery of endangered Brazilian forest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The endangered golden lion tamarin &#8212; a flagship species for conservation efforts in Brazil's highly threatened Atlantic Forest or <i>Mata Atlantica</i> &#8212; plays an important role in seed dispersal, thereby helping forest regeneration, according to research published in the June issue of the open access e-journal <i>Tropical conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-lapenta_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guide to Monkeys of the Guianas released]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A pocket identification guide to the monkeys of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana was unveiled Sunday at a gathering of tropical biologists in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-ci_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Argentina's primates under threat from agriculture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five species of non-human primates inhabit in northern Argentina: black and gold howlers, brown howlers, black capuchins, brown-capped capuchins, and owl monkeys. Although two of these species are clearly endangered (brown howlers and owl monkeys), populations of all other species are disappearing due to anthropogenic changes of their habitats. Most of the forests where these species inhabit are under continuous alteration and degradation due to soy, rice, and forest plantations, and exotic pastures for livestock. Moreover, protected forests in Argentina are insufficient to protect these primates.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-Zunino-Kowaleski_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: pair of kissing saki monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) has unveiled a new pair of saki monkeys at Prospect Park Zoo in New York.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-wcs_maher_saki.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fragmentation puts Mexican howlers at risk]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation is putting mantled howler monkeys in southern Mexico at risk, reports a new study, published in the inaugural issue of the open access e-journal Tropical conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_mandujano.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New uakari monkey discovered in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A previously unknown species of uakari monkey was discovered in the Brazilian Amazon, reports <i>National Geographic News</i>.  The primate was identified after it was killed by Yanomamo Indians near the Brazil-Venezuela border.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0205-monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo: the night monkey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Midget" is the youngest member of a family (six in all) of douroucoulis at the Bronx Zoo's World of Darkness. The only true nocturnal monkey, this species is also known as "owl monkey" or "night monkey".]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0120-maher_night_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An interview with primate researcher Dr. Karen Strier: America's largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic forest of Brazil boasts South America's largest primates, the Southern and Northern Muriqui.  The muriqui are unique among all primates, because they are not territorial and do not display aggressive behvaior.  The IUCN has classified the Southern Muriqui as endangered, while the Nothern Muriqui is critically endangered.  Dr. Karen Strier has studied the Northern Muriqui in the field for twenty-five years.  A professor of zoology and anthropology at the University of Madison Wisconsin, she is the author of Faces in the Forest: the Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil and a new textbook entitled Primate behvaioral Ecology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0110-interview_strier_hance.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo: Pygmy marmoset twins born at the Bronx Zoo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Twin pygmy marmosets born to three-year-old mom, Squirt, and seven-year-old dad, King at the Bronx Zoo on November 11 are doing well, according to zoo officials.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-wcs_marmoset.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. Marc Van Roosmalen, discover of unknown monkey species, freed in Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dr. Marc van Roosmalen, a renowned primatologist who has discovered seven species of monkeys in the Amazon rainforest, has been freed in Brazil.  Dr. van Roosmalen had been charged with illegally keeping wild animals and embezzlement and sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison in a case that was widely criticized by scientists.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0807-roosmalen.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Primatologist freed but questions remain for Brazil after "attack on science"]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While primatologist Dr. Marc van Roosmalen has been freed from prison pending appeal, prominent scientists had stinging criticism for the Brazilian government over its increasingly "hostile" treatment of researchers.  Before Roosmalen was released Tuesday, some scientists even threatened "civil disobedience," according to a report in the journal Nature.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0808-roosmalen.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New species discovered in "lost" African forest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered several unknown species during an expedition to a forest that has been off-limits to researcher for nearly 50 years due to civil strife.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0807-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists demand release of renowned monkey discoverer in Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A prominent group of scientists have issued a petition to free world-renowned primatologist Marc van Roosmalen from Brazilian prison after he was charged with illegally keeping monkeys without a permit and other crimes.  The scientists have called his imprisonment an "attack on the practice and profession of biological science in Brazil."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0806-roosmalen.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wildlife tourism can be detrimental to monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tourism is causing changes in primate behvaior and may be increasing infant mortality and the transmission of disease, reports a study published in the October edition of the International Journal of Primatology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-monkeys.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers find large population of extremely rare monkey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists from WWF and conservation International (CI) has discovered the world's largest known population of grey-shanked doucs (<i>Pygathrix cinerea</i>), a monkey ranked as one of the world's 25 most endangered primates, in Vietnam.  The discovery is fueling that the species can be saved from extinction -- less than 1,000 of the monkeys are thought to remain.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of baby colobus monkey born at Central Park Zoo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A baby colobus monkey born at the Central Park Zoo in New York is doing well according to the Wildlife conservation Society. The infant, presently all white in color, will develop its characteristic black and white coat within the next three months. Colobus monkeys are native to the forests of Central Africa, ranging from Nigeria to Ethiopia and down into Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-colobus.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of baby langur born at Bronx Zoo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A three month old ebony langur (born on Nov 25, 2006) is starting to explore its Asian rain forest habitat at the Bronx Zoo's JungleWorld in New York. Visitors can see this adorable and agile zoo baby on exhibit with its mother, Dashini, father, Indra, and the rest of their troop.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0326-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New monkey species in Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda may soon have a new species of monkey according to a report published in Kampala's <i>New Vision</i> newspaper. Dr. Colin Groves of the Australian National University told New Vision that the local population of the gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) will soon be designated as a unique species, the Ugandan gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus ugandae).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0219-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New monkey species found in Brazil claims scientist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Brazilian scientist claims to have discovered a previously known species of monkey, although other experts say the species may have been documented before. Earlier this month, Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes, a professor of Zoology at the Federal University in Pernambuco, published a scientific description of Cebus queirozi in the international scientific journal Zootaxa.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0519-new_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Recently discovered monkey is most unique since swamp monkey in 1923]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new monkey species discovered last year by scientists with the New York-based Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) and other groups is now shown to be so unique, it requires a new genus -- the first one for monkeys in 83 years, according to a study published in this week's Science. But conservationists warn that quick action is needed to protect the monkey's high-altitude forest home from illegal logging and hunting, or the species may soon vanish. The monkey, first described by WCS scientists who found it in Tanzania last year, was initially believed to be related to mangabeys. However, DNA work published in this recent study reveals that the species is truly unique, marking the first new genus for a living monkey species since Allen's swamp monkey in 1923.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0511-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monkeys indicate economic decision-making may be innate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New research out of Yale University argues that monkeys and humans exhibit similar economic biases, suggesting that economic decision-making have deeper roots that many economists suspect. The Yale researchers found that monkeys conducting business-like activities - including trading and gambling - behave in ways that closely mirror human behvaioral inclinations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0503-yale.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest Canopy - Primates]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Primates are characteristic of every continental rainforest realm, except for the Australasian realm, and are made up of nearly 200 living species in more than 50 genera. Primates are thought to have originated from their insectivore-like ancestors between 100 million and 65 million years ago. The ancient primates most resembled lemurs and the tarsier of today, and upper primates did not appear until 37 to 23 million years ago. Upper primates include monkeys, apes, chimps, and humans, and the non-human species are generally divided into Old World monkeys and New World monkeys.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0410.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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