Primatologists have discovered a new species of monkey in Northern Myanmar. Rhinopithecus Strykeri, a species of snub-nosed monkey, has an upturned nose which causes it to sneeze when it rains.

Xukun Su, Yu Shen, Wei Zhou, Yuqing Liu, Hao Cheng, Murong Yang, Su Zhou, Junyan Zhao, Lingfan Wan, Guohua Liu, Land-use changes conservation network of an endangered primate (Rhinopithecus bieti) in ...

Yongcheng Long, Frank Momberg, Jian Ma, Yue Wang, Yongmei Luo, Haishu Li, Guiliang Yang, Ming Li. Rhinopithecus strykeri Found in China!. American Journal of Primatology, 2012; DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22041 ...

Frank E. Poirier, Hu Hongxhin, Macaca mulatta and Rhinopithecus in China: Preliminary Research Results, Current Anthropology, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jun., 1983), pp. 387-388 ...

The new species, a previously unknown type of snub-nosed monkey dubbed Rhinopithecus strykeri, has a nose so upturned that the animals sneeze audibly when it rains.

The black snub-nosed monkey (rhinopithecus bieti) lives at altitudes higher than any other non-human primate, up to 4,700 meters above sea level. These endangered monkeys are only found in the ...

The Yunnan golden or black snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) dwells in the most extreme environment of any monkey: high-altitude evergreen forests at elevations from 3,000 to 4,500 meters ...

The monkey species, Rhinopithecus strykeri, was first reported to exist in October 2010. With no photographic evidence of a live specimen that year, the researchers made a Photoshop reconstruction ...

A new species of monkey with an unfortunate infliction caused by the shape of its face has been discovered in the forests of northern Burma. The snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, has ...

Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La Panel Discussion at the Asia Society Grueter et al. Fallback foods of temperate-living primates: a case study on snub-nosed monkeys. International Journal of ...