In 11 th century China, the scholar Lu Dian wrote an encyclopedia of his country’s beasts, birds, insects, and trees. One of the species he described in the text was a monkey “with fluffy golden tail ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A survey to find the critically endangered Tonkin-snub nosed monkey in Vietnam found no trace of it in one of two remaining forest patches it was ...

Until the 1980s people roamed the mountains of Shennongjia in central China hunting monkeys for their meat and fur. Poor farmers were still clearing vast areas of trees, and as their environment ...

This year, as I have turned 62 years old, I have dwelt deeply on a cause to which I have devoted my entire life: studying and protecting the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey. This creature, endemic to the ...

The exotic and colorful snub-nosed monkey spends its days foraging about the treetop in the mountain forests in China, Myanmar and Vietnam. Though once widespread, this endangered species is only ...

Up to 80 per cent of China's primate species are at risk of extinction according to a new study by a group of international primatologists including The University of Western Australia. The exotic and ...