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Sad news from CNN: a new report shows that nearly 50% of the world’s primates are at risk of extinction.

The many Asian species of primates were hardest hit – as many as 90% of the varieties native to Vietnam and Cambodia were found to be at risk.

Said one interviewee: “To have a group of animals under such a high level of threat is, quite frankly, unlike anything we have recorded among any other group of species to date.”

So I guess we can add gibbons, langurs, and red colobus monkeys to our ever-growing list of precious animal species on the verge of extinction?