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New Locality for the Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Theodore A. Parker III
Affiliation:
Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70893, USA.
Linda J. Barkley
Affiliation:
Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70893, USA.
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Abstract

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The authors found a small number of yellow-tailed woolly monkeys in a part of Peru 200 kilometres from where in 1974 the species was ‘rediscovered’ (having been believed extinct). As the area is also the home of a number of endemic Peruvian birds, they suggest it may have been a refugium in the late Pleistocene and should be both protected and explored for other possible undescribed species.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1981

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