Article: MONKEY PUZZLE; Why did someone swipe 15 rare primates from wildlife centre?(News)

Article: Poachers push rare primates of Indochina to brink ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Poachers push rare primates of Indochina to brink of extinction Merchants find profit in selling animals for meat, medicines By DENIS D. GRAY Associated ...

Article: Rare primates discovered in Pu Huong Nature ...
Vietnamese News Agency;  March 10, 2009 ;     540 words ...Nghe An, March 10, 2009 (VNA) - Scientists have discovered a group of four or five white-cheek gibbons ( nomascus leucogenys ) and a group of four grey monkeys ( trachypithecus phayrei ) - two rare animal species facing extinction in the Pu Huong Nature Reserve in the central province of Nghe An.

Article: Rare primates found in Madagascar.
United Press International;  November 15, 2000 ;     640 words ...ANTANARIVO, Madagascar, Nov. 14 (UPI) A team of international scientists has discovered three previously unknown species of mouse lemur in the Indian Ocean East African island state of Madagascar. The mouse lemur is the world's smallest-known primate. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday

Article: Biology professor counts rare primates in remote ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 12, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Doing an animal census in the wild assumes there is actually something to count and that getting the tally is feasible. So after three weeks in a soggy, bug-ridden rain forest _ not to mention riding three airplanes and a small boat, hiking for two days up a river, then climbing a 1,000-foot cliff

Article: MORE GUENONS OR MOVING MONKEYS? RARE PRIMATES ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 16, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Byline: William M. Dowd Managing editor/features A rare monkey called an owl-faced guenon has been sighted in the Nyungwe Forest of Rwanda, a tiny, landlocked Central African nation. That may not mean much to the average person, but conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation International

Article: A sticky situation
Evening News - Scotland;  July 8, 2002 ;     330 words ... ... regular basis. Steve Dickie, fellow director, said: "The pygmy marmosets are proving to be a big hit with our visitors, kindly on loan from Oban Zoological World. "The only problem is that most people want to take them home."

Article: Go-ahead for garden zoo.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 16, 2000 ;     314 words ... ... and Ann Rollinson the green light to create an exotic tourist attraction in the Highlands. Now the couple will open the Oban Zoological World in June with more than 100 different species on show. The couple first began collecting animals when they bought ...