Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
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| Species: | R. avunculus
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| Rhinopithecus avunculus (Dollman, 1912)
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The Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey or Dollman's Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) is a species of colobine endemic to northwestern Vietnam.[1]
Sightings of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey have become increasingly rare. The primate was thought to be extinct until the 1990's when a small population was discovered in Na Hang District in Tuyen Quang Province of Vietnam. Heavy poaching for food as well as the wildlife blackmarket and the destruction of habitat are the main reasons why the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey is on the top 25 list of critically endangered species.[3]
By 2008, when a small population with three infants was discovered in a remote forest, fewer than 250 of the primates were thought to exist.[4]
References
- ^ a b Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Template:IUCN2008
- ^ snub nosed monkeys
- ^ (BBC News) " Glimmer of hope for rare monkey", 7 December 2008.
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