Presented by
Michelle Douglass
Amazing images taken mainly by camera traps reveal a previously unrecognised species of macaque living in Tibet’s forests.
The photographs, also including some images from manually operated cameras, provide an intimate portrait of the cute primates – showing the monkeys grooming each other; foraging and tending to their young.
The elusive monkey, which researchers have called the white-cheeked macaque (Macaca leucogenys), had previously been identified as the Assamese macaque (Macaca assamensis).
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