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Miami Herald
4 days ago
- General
- Miami Herald
Noisy group of ‘very rare' monkeys seen at reserve in first-of-its-kind video
During a routine survey at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a wildlife patrol team heard some noises coming from the trees. They started filming and ended up recording the first-ever video of some 'very rare' monkeys. Izaak Antoine Malengela and a team of community wildlife monitors 'were on a routine ecological monitoring mission' at Kabobo Wildlife Reserve in March when they heard some 'noisy' monkeys, a spokesperson for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) told McClatchy News. The patrol team 'immediately recognized' the monkeys as Foa's red colobuses and recorded a video of them, the spokesperson said in an Aug. 8 email. Foa's red colobus monkeys are 'a very rare sight,' and the patrol team's video is the 'first ever' of the species, WCS said in an Aug. 5 Facebook post. A roughly 20-second-long video shows two Foa's red colobus perched in a tree. The monkeys have bright orange fur on their limbs, tails and heads but gray fur on their backs. The pair sits on the same branch, looking around and scratching. 'The Foa's Red Colobus is a true forest species,' WCS said in the Facebook post. 'It tends to live in large, noisy groups and does not flee from humans, making it easy to hunt.' The species 'used to be widespread' across the Democratic Republic of the Congo but is now endangered and considered extinct in 'almost all of their former range,' Benjamin Wilondja, WCS's head of biomonitoring at the reserve, and Fiona Maisels, a WCS conservation scientist, told McClatchy News. 'Today, the Kabobo Wildlife Reserve may be the only location where (Foa's red colobus) continue to exist.' A shorter video clip, shared by WCS on Instagram, shows one of the Foa's red colobus monkeys blinking. 'Its eyelids are very light coloured, making an obvious 'flash,' which could be interpreted as a social sign and common characteristic to various species of red colobus,' Wilondja and Maisels said. Wildlife monitoring efforts at Kabobo Wildlife Reserve are ongoing. Kabobo Wildlife Reserve is along the western edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country in central Africa that borders Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Bloomberg
08-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Debt Derivatives Are So Tight Even Trump's Tariff Talk Can't Shift Them
Markets JPMorgan analysts compile basket of corporates facing risk Credit has 'most stretched valuations,' fund manager Foa says Even US President Donald Trump's tariff rhetoric can't rattle credit markets, a sign to some money managers and strategists that the market is too complacent. Prices on credit default swaps barely moved on Monday amid the prospect of levies being introduced on Mexican and Canadian goods, even as trading volume in the derivatives more than doubled from the previous week's daily average. By Tuesday, activity had returned to more typical levels.
