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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The largest known population of rare, gray-shanked doucs has been discovered in a remote part of Vietnam, raising the prospect the endangered monkeys can be saved from extinction, scientists said Tuesday.
Considered one of the world's 25 most-endangered primates, the species has only been recorded in the five central Vietnamese provinces. Fewer than 1,000 individuals are believed to exist, and until now only one other population with more than 100 animals was known.
"This is an exciting and important discovery because of the large size of the population," Barney Long, a conservation biologist with the World Wide Fund for Nature's Vietnam program, said in a statement.
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