monkeying around this frenzy had fellow is the latest member of the great tate family his last name is pungo top and newly insists to the untrained eye he may look like any other around luton but when an older member of the family died in twenty thirteen after a brutal confrontation with local villagers researches took a closer look. what they found was remarkable the test results published in the journal current biology revealed the animals have smaller heads and frizzy affirm the top a newly orangutan was its own distinct species. long called the whole the voice of the language of the running times is already different. but also they're living in a very high altitude habitat and very in the fruits of various tree species that nobody's ever seen them eat. just one there may not be much time to celebrate there are only eight hundred left the least of any great ape species the biggest threat comes from a distant relative humans. well the anthropologist michael corson was one of the lead researchers in this study earlier he spoke about how the species of all so that really interesting point is

monkeying around this frizzy had fellow is the latest member of the great ape family his last name is pungo top and newly insists to the untrained eye he may look like any other. but when an older member of the family died in twenty thirteen after a brutal confrontation with local villagers researches took a closer look. what they found was remarkable that test results published in the journal current biology reveal the animals have smaller heads and frizzy a fur the top a newly orangutang was its own distinct species. the long haul the whole voice of the language of the right hands is already different. so it's a very interesting difference. biologists one there may not be much time to celebrate there are only eight hundred left the least of any great ape species the biggest threat comes from a distant relative humans. we now john i want to lead with such as in this study anthropologist michele kurtz and welcome michelle thank you studying this species for quite some time now how did this finding come about. good afternoon yes and it was it was took quite some time i think it was first men