Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, also called the Burmese or black snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, is a critically endangered colobine monkey first discovered in 2010 in the Gaoligong Mountains of northeastern Kachin state in Myanmar and formally described in 2011 from its fur, beard and tail. A team led by the Swiss primatologist Thomas Geissmann and Ngwe Lwin of the Myanmar Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association, supported by Fauna & Flora International, reported it in the American Journal of Primatology, and the species name honours the philanthropist Jon Stryker. Two groups were later described in China, in 2011 and 2015. Its local names in Lisu and Law Waw both mean monkey with an upturned face, and people say that rain makes it sneeze because of its short upturned nose.