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Discovery of a new monkey species
According to report of WWF Organization in Britain said that the scientific expedition from in 2010 so far has listed 441new creatures in the Amazon tropical rainforest.


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Especially, the monkey with a mouth like Piran fish species, but it only eats plants.  A strange monkey named Caqueta titi that was discovered in the area under Colombian Amazon. It's quite small and emits sounds very lovely.

All of 441 new creatures have 258 species of plants, 84 fish species, 58 species of amphibians, 22 species of reptiles, 18 species of birds and mammals. Damian Fleming, head of the research program in Brazil and Amazon of WWF-UK, told The Guardian newspaper that on average each week they identified two new species during the last 4 years. This showed that Amazon is a global biodiversity center.

UPI News Agency quoted Damian Fleming said that the richness of the Amazon forests continue to make scientists around the world by surprise. The ecosystem of the Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and stretches across the countries such as Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

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