“The discovery improves our knowledge of this species, but we need to focus our efforts on the conservation and restoration of the remaining montane forest (a high density forest) where this species still exists,” conservation biologist Dr. Craig Turner of the Zoological Society of London said in a press release. “Currently this accounts for less than one percent of the land area of Sri Lanka.” (via First pictures of the primate thought to be extinct)

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