In 2007, in a humid and remote part of the rainforest in the Lomani Basin in central Democratic Republic of Congo, a team of scientists discovered a brand new species of monkey with the help of ...

In a paper published Wednesday in the open-access journal Plos One, the scientists describe the new species that they call Cercopithecus Lomamiensis, known locally as the Lesula, whose home is ...

It would seem difficult to overlook something as large as a new species of monkey, but scientists had no idea about the lesula until just a few years ago when conservation biologist John Hart ...

Only found in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the lesula monkey (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) was first described by scientists in 2012. A 2023 Animals study finds that the ...

But it's a real, brand-new monkey, discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo--only the second new monkey species in the past 28 years. Meet the lesula. By Dan Nosowitz Published Sep 13 ...

Since 2007, the "lesula" has been waiting to be confirmed as one of the last primates ever to be discovered. There will be more, to be sure, as this lowland species from central Congo's inter-fluvial ...

The monkey species, called lesula by locals, lives deep in the remote Lomami forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The monkey’s habitat is one of few remaining unexplored biological ...

Called the Lesula by Congolese, it's only the second species of monkey discovered in almost three decades. It has large almost human-like eyes, a pink face, a golden mane and blue buttocks.