Found a rare monkey on Borneo island

A threatening monkey, named Miller's Grizzled Langur, has just been found on Borneo, in an area where the monkey is not thought to live, international researchers said Friday.

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There is little information available about this monkey, officially called Presbytis hosei canicrus , except that it was included in the list of endangered animals by the International Union for Nature Conservation, due to a loss of lips The school lives because of agricultural development, mining, forest fires and extreme hunting.

It is believed that this monkey only lives in the forest, in northeast Borneo, adjacent to Indonesia's Java island.

Monkey Presbytis hosei canicrus

But a recent survey by scientists who set up cameras in remote areas in a relatively primitive rain forest in the west of Borneo - Wehea Forest in East Kalimantan - collected The photos are said to belong to this monkey.

"The discovery of Presbytis hoi canicrus is a big surprise because Wehea forest is outside the known range of this monkey," said researcher Brent Loken at Simon Fraser University in Canada. "Concerns that this species was extinct was raised in 2004 and a search for them in 2008 supported the assessment that the situation has become very tragic."

However, scientists are not yet clear which monkeys images they have taken, because the only source used to compare photographs comes from museums."It's hard to confirm our search results because there are so few photos of this monkey to study," Loken said.

"The only descriptions of the Miller's Grizzled Langur species come from the sample versions of the museum. Our photos at Wehea seem to be one of the few photos we have about this monkey."

The next step, scientists are hoping to find out how many monkeys are living in the 38,000-hectare forest. Loken also expressed hope that this provided an opportunity to save one of the endangered primates.