Sunday, September 27, 2009

Kipunji Monkeys

An older article...but the recently discovered kipunji mokey seems to be closely related to baboons, sharing both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA with the genus Papio. It is suggested that they might in fact be a hybrid of Lophocebus mangabeys and Papio babboons.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Ashley,

    Could you please repost the link? It doesn't seem to be working. Thanks!

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  2. Hey Tim,

    It should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out!

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