It’s a titi! New monkey species found in Peru

An illustration obtained on August 20, 2015 shows a Callicebus urubambensis or Urubamba brown titi monkey. -AFP

PARIS: For nearly a century the carcass of a small, reddish-brown monkey from South America gathered dust in a windowless backroom of the American Natural History Museum in New York City.

Like a morgue corpse in a drawer with the wrong toe tag, it was a victim of mistaken identity. No one realised during all those years that it was, in fact, a specimen of an unknown species.