INTERNET MONKEY
April 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEA NEWLY discovered monkey has been named after an Internet gambling site, after it offered the highest bid of US$650,000 in the world's first online species naming auction.The titi monkey will be called the GoldenPalace.com monkey, sporting a formal name of Callicebus aureipalatii, Latin for Golden Palace.A World Conservation Society (WCS) researcher discovered the new species in the Bolivian rainforest's Madidi National Park. Normally, the person that discovers a new species names it, but to raise money towards protecting the monkey's habitat, ...
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