Researchers have discovered a new sub-species of monkey in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.
The newly found monkey was first spotted by scientists in 2007 in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and is related to the saddleback tamarin monkeys, known for their distinctively marked backs, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said.
Twelve very rare and endangered velvet monkeys that were being brought into the country by using forged documents have been confiscated and the wildlife trafficker has been caught and fined.
According to sources, the smuggled moneys are being kept in quarantine, and the fine has been recovered by the Sindh Wildlife Department.
Researchers in Gabon and France have discovered a new species of malaria parasite, one that lives in chimpanzees but is closely related to the species most deadly to humans.
The new species was described last week in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
Pakistani hunters are trying to catch a wild leopard roaming the grounds of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's official residence, an official said on Monday.
The animal, first spotted on a closed-circuit television camera, slipped into the garden of the well-guarded Islamabad compound late last week, perhaps in search of prey such as wild boar that also roam the area.
Researchers may have discovered a technique that will eventually lead to a way to vaccinate against the AIDS virus, by creating an artificial antibody carried into the body by a virus.
This synthetic immune system molecule protected monkeys against an animal version of HIV called SIV, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Medicine.
JORHAT, May 12: The man-animal conflict in Jorhat has received a new dimension with hordes of rhesus monkeys menacing villages in North-West Jorhat. The area which comprises cultivable farms of fruits, vegetables and paddy are facing depredations on a daily basis.
A farmer of Madhya Goru Mora village, Robin Bora, said that it is impossible to cultivate a single vegetable on 10 bighas of land.
Aprimatologist, environmentalist and UN messenger of peace - that's Dame Jane Goodall for one and all. But what is she doing at a technology platform like Map World Forum, raised the brow of many a technologist at the event.
There are over 0.3 million rhesus monkeys in Northern India. Approximately 48.5% of these are living in human habitation areas. The inordinate growth in populations of such monkeys in recent years has led to an unhealthy competition for space and food between man and monkey.
