Imagine the thrill of discovering a new species of primate. For a conservationist, it’s the stuff that dreams are made of. Then picture the nightmare scenario in which you’re forced to watch helplessly as the habitat of that newly discovered species is engulfed in flames. That is the heartbreaking reality faced by Rodrigo Costa Araújo and his colleagues at the National Institute of Amazonian Research and the Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil, just months after they first set eyes on the minuscule marmoset now known as Mico munduruku.
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Source: Phys.org