Lost and found: how a jungle trek led to first photo of fearless, fluffy-cheeked monkey

Bouvier's red colobus monkey was 'rediscovered' after an expedition up river and through swamps in the Republic of the Congo "They have a nice black eyebrow, but I especially liked the fluffy white hairs on their cheeks." For Congolese primatologist Gaël Elie Gnondo Gobolo, seeing Bouvier's red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus bouvieri) for the first time "was an unexpected moment, like being in a dream". No one knew the monkey still existed in the Republic of the Congo. Assessments for the IUCN in...