Nigeria has more rare wildlife than most people expect, and a surprising amount of it lives nowhere else. One monkey exists almost only inside its borders. A gorilla subspecies has…
TLDR Nilgiri langurs are leaf-eating specialists. Young leaves make up almost half their diet (around 44%), with the rest split between seeds, fruit, flowers, bark, and — oddly — soil….
Pygmy marmosets eat tree gum. Not as a snack — as the main event. The world’s smallest monkey spends most of its feeding time gouging holes in bark and lapping…
First, the disambiguation, because Google is confused too: this is the drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus), not a power tool and not the snail that bores holes in oyster shells. It’s…