The Elvis monkey, a self-cloning skunk and a Limestone leaf
warbler are some of the 208 species that were found and
described for the first time recently in a new World Wildlife
Fund The species - which also include five carnivorous plants,
reptiles and amphibians - were discovered in the Greater Mekong
region of Southeast Asia in 2010. The region spans Cambodia,
Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the south-western Chinese
province of Yunnan, according to the WWF. Of the species that
are new to science, there are 145 plants, 28 reptiles, 25 fish,
seven amphibians, two mammals and only one bird. The primate,
known as the "Elvis monkey," was one of the more surprising
discoveries, scientists told National Geographic. "This is
really the end of the era of large mammal discovery, so to have
a new primate discovered in this area, unknown to science, is
extremely rare," Stuart Chapman, conservation director of the
WWF's Greater Mekong program, told the news source. "Looking
ahead we may only ever see one or two m