It is only the second new species of African monkey discovered in the last 28 years, biologists said.
The first lesula found was a young captive animal seen in 2007 in a school director's compound in the town of Opala in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The young monkey bore a resemblance to a known species called the owl-faced monkey, but its coloration was different. Read the article.
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