Most people on this site tend not to be knee-jerk reactionaries and would take my comment to mean exactly what I said. It looks like many of the more recent photos of the celebrity Micheal Jackson. I think its the recessed eyes and nose area mostly.

And it is really cute. I can easily see this species being made into plushies for fund raisers. I’m honestly surprised the villagers eat them instead of raising them as pets but different cultures have different values, and let’s face it, filling your children’s bellies is pretty high up on the lists of must do.

DWA is quite right. If something this well known and of this size went for so long without being documented by Zoologists (mind it is large, social (trooping) and lives close to humans) it is not too much of a leap to say an extremely large, solitary, and possibly territorial/aggressive primate can live within a stone’s throw of civilization.

I could not believe that you wrote the photoshop picture looked like “Michael Jackson.” I say that because I was thinking the exact same thing but thought it might not go over to well if I posted it!

I also agree that this type of discover bodes well for the same think happening with the sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti.

And it’s substantially different from anything related to it, not even sharing range.

This is essentially a Myanmar sasquatch, with one difference:

Science trusted the people who said it was real, and looked.

But I am glad to see that they are documenting more and more new species and I hope these aren’t as endangered as they appear to be. I’m sure the native hunters could give the researchers a good idea how their numbers have fluctuated over the years, although I doubt the hunters will be happy to hear they will no longer be allowed to hunt this animal for meat.

It is good to see young with them and they appear to be trooping animals so perhaps with patience and dedication a researcher or two might be able to socialize themselves within a troop and learn much more about them, which may well lead to the discovery of even more new animals.

I’m pretty confident that the superstructure of science trumps totalitarian information control here. The right folks (orgs and individuals) appear to be involved. Moreover, the type of monkey is related to other species that share similar habitat.

I’m not worried, personally.