New Uakari Photo

If you’ve been reading of the finding of a new primate in the last few days, you aren’t going crazy if you thought it sounded awfully familiar.

On January 16, 2008, you learned here of the discovery of a new monkey in the Amazon, with the Latin name Cacajao ayresii.

This week various media releases, stimulated by the National Geographic News, have caused a new round of articles. But when I wrote about this new uakari monkey from the Amazon rainforest, there were no photographs available last month. Now I have located photographs of the discoverer (top and below) and Nat Geo has made one of the discovered (directly below) available too.

For those that need proof that actually searching, a la’ the cryptozoological method, does turn up results, this discovery is one that followed a specific pattern of looking and finding.

Auckland University’s only primatologist Jean Philippe Boubli undertook the first ever study of the black uakari monkey during a series of wildlife surveys after following native Yanomamo Indians on their hunts along the Rio Araca, a tributary of the Rio Negro in Brazil.

Jean Philippe Boubli, (Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley) Auckland University, New Zealand, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology.

“They told us about this black uakari monkey, which was slightly different to the one we knew from Pico de Neblina National Park, where I’d worked earlier,” said Dr. Boubli.

“I searched for that monkey for at least five years. The reason I couldn’t find it was because the place where they were was sort of unexpected.”

“Finding a relatively large monkey as a new species these days is pretty cool,” Dr. Boubli told the National Geographic Magazine.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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