Of course, we are reporting here what most of the media said, with a direct link to one treatment of the langur news. The story hit the wires that an “extinct” primate had been rediscovered. Don’t kill the messenger, unless you are a newt, humm?

Hey, the Huffington Post used the phrase, “long thought extinct.” We didn’t go that far.

But then it should be pointed out that just because a “sighting” was recorded a “couple years” ago, who is to say anyone “believed” the folks reporting the appearances? Some people refused to take those to heart, and they ended up in the dustbin with the recent sightings of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, until these new events.

Nevertheless, appreciated is John Platt’s caution, but frankly, sometimes the media does get it wrong when they are trying to be melodramatic. By extension, we might have also, and for that, we apologize.