The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-grey monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the animals left in this swath of the Atlantic forest, in southeastern Brazil's Minas Gerais state. Inside the …
CARATINGA, Brazil — The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. Strier describes her first encounter with the willowy, critically endangered golden-grey monkey as “love at first sight.” American biological anthropologist Karen Strier observes northern muriqui monkeys at the Feliciano Miguel Abdala Private Natural Heritage …
