The Popa langurs were likely once widespread across central Myanmar, according to the study ... The largest population is on Mount Popa, home to more than 100 langurs. Mount Popa, a sacred ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of monkeys in central Myanmar with the help of a 100-year-old tissue sample. The primate, named Popa langur after the extinct volcano Mount Popa ...

YANGON: According to the National-level Committee on Geoparks, new geosites are being identified for Mount Popa National Geopark, Myanmar’s first national-level geopark, in order to gain ...

The creature is found in central Myanmar and is named after the sacred Mount Popa, which is home to about 100 of the 250 or so living Popa langur in the world. It has distinctive rings around its ...

The species, newly named Popa langur for their home on the sacred pilgrimage site Mount Popa ... and skull of an over 100-year-old monkey from Myanmar at the London Natural History Museum.

Rising 2,400 feet above sea level, like Myanmar's own miniature Mount Fuji, Mount Popa, a volcano in the centre of the country is home to a hidden monastery. At its summit, Taung Kalat is a ...

for it lives on the steep hillsides of the extinct Mt Popa volcano in Myanmar. It was the only new mammal that has been discovered. There are also dozens of newly identified reptiles, frogs and ...

Scientists have recently discovered a new primate species in Myanmar’s central forest. However, the Popa langur, named after nearby Mount Popa, is tragically already on the verge of extinction.

The Popa langur only occurs in central Myanmar and is named after the sacred Mount Popa, which holds the largest population of the species with about 100 animals. Mount Popa is an extinct volcano ...

A new species of monkey living on an extinct volcano in Myanmar has been described for the first time. Mount Popa, where the newly named Popa langur monkeys live, is a sacred pilgrimage site and home ...