Muruquis 8 (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Muruquis 8

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These are Muriqui monkeys inhabiting a federally-protected reserve in southeastern Brazil, called RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala. UW-Madison Professor Karen Strier, has studied the critically-endangered muriqui monkeys in this patch of Brazil's Atlantic Forest since 1983. A recent and unprecedented outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus, yellow fever, has killed thousands of monkeys in the region, including nearly all of the muriqui's main competitors, brown howler monkeys.

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Carla Possamai, Muriqui Project of Caratinga

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