Anthropology At FAU! What Do Anthropologists Do With Their
Summers? RESEARCH!!! Assistant Professor Kate Detwiler Works
With Team That Discovers New Monkey Species in the Democratic
Republic of Congo Dr. Kate Detwiler spent her summer working
with the Lukuru Foundation, a collaboration of interdisciplinary
scientists conducting the first systematic inventory of large
mammals in the Congo. While in the central Congo jungle located
in the Lomami Basin between the Lomami and Tshuapa Rivers, the
group found a previously unidentified species of monkey,
Cercopithecus lomamiensis, locally known as the lesula. The
lesula, which closely resembles the owl-faced monkey, is only
the second new species of monkey discovered in Africa in 28
years. Dr. Detwiler was the corresponding author for
documentation of the new species and supervised the genetic
analyses needed to determine the lesula as a new monkey species.
"The fact that we are just finding a new species of primate in
this area of the Congolese rain forest in the 2