New species of ape living in the treetops discovered
Scientists have discovered a new species of ape living in the treetops of the rugged mountains along the Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian borders. The “Yellow-cheeked Crested Gibbon” has been given the name Nomascus annamensis. It is is the seventh Nomascus species to be identified.
Van Ngoc Thinh, who is studying for his doctorate at DPZ, which is part of central Germany’s Goettingen University, observed the gibbons in the jungle and wrote up the findings in the Vietnamese Journal of Primatology: Van Ngoc Thinh, Alan R. Mootnick, Vu Ngoc Thanh, Tilo Nadler, Christian Roos: A new species of crested gibbon, from the central Annamite mountain range. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology 1(4), 2010, 1-12.