Description
English: Two Tokin snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus avunculus) in northeastern Vietnam.
Date 8 September 2013, 10:57:33
Source Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/69127294@N04/9703446186/in/photostream/
Author Quyet Le https://www.flickr.com/photos/69127294@N04/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tonkin_snub-nosed_monkeys_(Rhinopithecus_avunculus).jpg

The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey or Dollman's snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) is a slender-bodied arboreal Old World monkey, endemic to northern Vietnam. It is a black and white monkey with a pink nose and lips and blue patches round the eyes. It is found at altitudes of 200 to 1,200 m (700 to 3,900 ft) on fragmentary patches of forest on craggy limestone areas. First described in 1912, the monkey was rediscovered in 1990 but is exceedingly rare. In 2008, fewer than 250 individuals were thought to exist, and the species was the subject of intense conservation effort. The main threats faced by these monkeys is habitat loss and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the species as "critically endangered". Order: Primates, Family: Cercopithecidae.