Unusual Discovery of New African Monkey Species 71
rhettb writes "In a remote and largely unexplored rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers have made an astounding discovery: a new monkey species. The new primate, which is name the lesula and described in a paper in the journal PLoS ONE, was first noticed by scientist and explorer John Hart in 2007. The discovery of a new primate species is rare nowadays. In fact, the lesula is only the second newly discovered monkey in Africa in the past 28 years."
Re:new species (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great, a new breed of monkey. Just what the world needed. I sure am glad that we solved all those other problems so we can care about this.
What are you complaining about? It's one more thing for you to have sex with.
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Oh great, a new breed of monkey. Just what the world needed. I sure am glad that we solved all those other problems so we can care about this.
What are you complaining about? It's one more thing for you to have sex with.
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WOW !! ALREADY OUTNUMBER WINDOWS PHONE USERS !! (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, laugh all you want !!
Alan Tudyk, is that you? (Score:2)
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You would prefer it if they ate the monkey?
Re:I'd take it with a pinch of salt... (Score:5, Informative)
Had you read TFA, you would've learned that they have done genetic testing and confirmed the species' distinctiveness from its closest relative.
questions (Score:5, Insightful)
Science will ask biological type questions. The rest of the world only cares about these questions though:
Is it cute?
Is it tasty?
Can it do tricks?
Beyond that the rest of the world just doesn't care. Kind of sad actually.
Re:questions (Score:5, Funny)
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I can't even decide if this is racist or not.
Re:questions (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, and here on Slashdot they'll want to know if it's working on a new programming language. That beard has a lot of promise.
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Is it tasty?
It doesn't need to be tasty. It just needs to come packaged as part of a "Happy Jungle Meal" with a toy for children. What you call a new species, the Congolese call, "the same old smoked Sunday roast dinner, again."
For the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benjamin Franklin's quip is valid, "Hunger never saw bad bread." Places that call themselves Democratic Republics usually are neither. Watch out for a name change to the "Democratic Republic of America."
Now . . . do these bushmeat critters have a natur
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Finally a new animal to name an operating system after!
Re:questions (Score:5, Funny)
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A 'new' discovery. It has a local name and has probably been used for bush meat forever but its new. So:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Not for long.
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Edible? (Score:2)
Most importantly (Score:1)
Hooray for PLoS ONE! (Score:4, Informative)
The Public Library of Science is helping to make more research results publicly accessible through this journal. No, I don't work for them, though I do have an article in PLoS ONE myself.
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Freely available doesn't mean that there's no cost involved
That is a valid point, though I did not claim anything to the contrary. As consumers of scientific publications, though, slashdot readers notice when they can - or cannot - download a published paper for free.
The authors paid the publisher (PLoS ONE) to have their article produced and published.
The vast majority of academic journals have charges for the authors, regardless of whether or not the articles are available for free to view and download. You would be hard pressed to find a journal in the biological sciences in particular that doesn't charge for review and publication.
PLoS submissions fees for US authors are $1350.
Which is o
Not new, just new to science (Score:2)
I read in a different article that the species was known to the native residents of the area. So western scientists have just named something, they didn't discover it. This article makes it sound like they're the first people that have ever seen such a thing.
It's a century ferret (Score:1)
Bigfoot! (Score:2)
Monkey looks like that restored Jesus painting (Score:3)
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Apparently the researchers "found Jesus"
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Evolution (Score:1)