Unusual Discovery of New African Monkey Species

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Unusual Discovery of New African Monkey Species

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 13, 2012 @04:38PM from the new-primate-on-the-block dept.

rhettb writes "In a remote and largely unexplored rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers have made an astounding discovery: a new monkey species. The new primate, which is name the lesula and described in a paper in the journal PLoS ONE, was first noticed by scientist and explorer John Hart in 2007. The discovery of a new primate species is rare nowadays. In fact, the lesula is only the second newly discovered monkey in Africa in the past 28 years."

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questions by onyxruby · 2012-09-13 17:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Science will ask biological type questions. The rest of the world only cares about these questions though:
Is it cute?
Is it tasty?
Can it do tricks?
Beyond that the rest of the world just doesn't care. Kind of sad actually.
1. Re:questions by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 17:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But does it blend?
2. Re:questions by istartedi · 2012-09-13 18:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yes, and here on Slashdot they'll want to know if it's working on a new programming language. That beard has a lot of promise.
  
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  For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
3. Re:questions by skovnymfe · 2012-09-13 19:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd say the most important question is this: Is it better at writing Shakespeare than other monkeys?
Re:I'd take it with a pinch of salt... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 17:30 · Score: 5, Informative

Had you read TFA, you would've learned that they have done genetic testing and confirmed the species' distinctiveness from its closest relative.
Re:new species by Joce640k · 2012-09-13 20:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh great, a new breed of monkey. Just what the world needed. I sure am glad that we solved all those other problems so we can care about this.
What are you complaining about? It's one more thing for you to have sex with.

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Hooray for PLoS ONE! by damn_registrars · 2012-09-13 22:46 · Score: 3, Informative

Notice that you can download this entire article, in html or pdf at your choice, for free from anywhere. No paywall or restrictions. You can even post it to your website, redistribute it freely, etc. You can do pretty much whatever you want with this article, short of claiming it to be your own work (if you're not an author).

The Public Library of Science is helping to make more research results publicly accessible through this journal. No, I don't work for them, though I do have an article in PLoS ONE myself.

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Monkey looks like that restored Jesus painting by stillnotelf · 2012-09-14 01:31 · Score: 2

Does anyone else think that this new monkey looks a lot like that badly restored painting of Jesus that was in the news a few weeks ago? Monkey (from TFA), Jesus; you decide.
Re:new species by Nyder · 2012-09-14 02:32 · Score: 2

Oh great, a new breed of monkey. Just what the world needed. I sure am glad that we solved all those other problems so we can care about this.
What are you complaining about? It's one more thing for you to have sex with.
Oh, and you missed this on the page? http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0802-penis-snake-amazon.html

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