article_snippet.sent: The white-cheeked macaque was discovered in the remote highland forests of south-east Tibet after researchers set up camera traps.
article_snippet.sent: Officially named Macaca leucogenys,
article_snippet.sent: Dr Pengfei Fan, one of the researchers who discovered the new species and a biologist at Dali University, Yunnan, in China, said The white-cheeked macaque had long been misidentified as another species.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Pengfei Fan, one of the researchers who discovered the new species and a biologist at Dali University, Yunnan, in China said that due to the remoteness of the location in Medog County of Tibet, few biologists had been there.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Devreese said: 'Our photos are the world's first and confirm that the species is not extinct. '
article_snippet.sent: No one knows anything about the species is not extinct.
article_snippet.sent: the species is not extinct live in an area where scientists rarely go, along the banks of a river a in a very inaccessible area.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Fiona Maisels, from the Wildlife Conservation Society, said: 'Dr Fiona Maisels, from the Wildlife Conservation Society’re very pleased indeed that Lieven and Gaël were able to achieve Lieven and Gaël objective of not only confirming that a Bouvier’s red colobus still exists, but also managing to get a very clear close-up picture of a mother and infant. '
article_snippet.sent: James Deutsch, vice president for conservation strategy at the WCS, added: 'Confirmation that Bouvier’s red colobus still thrives in the this area reminds us that there remain substantially intact wild places on Earth, and should re-energize all of us to save them before it is too late.'