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Crowned lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler For the month of December, I'll be posting some of my favorite pictures from 2012. All of these photos were taken…

Female black lemur on Nosy Komba, an island off northern Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler For the month of December, I'll be posting some of my favorite pictures from…

Ankarana Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis) in Ankarana, Madagascar. I just returned from 3+ weeks in Madagascar where I was looking into the illegal rosewood trade and other stories. I'll be…

The blue monkey -- also known as Sykes' Monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis) -- on Mt Kenya. The Kenyan government recently announced plans to build an electric fence around Mt. Kenya to…

Pak Sia memberikan susu sore hari kepada beberapa tanggungannya. Foto oleh Janie Dubman. Pada usia sembilan belas tahun, Sia muda menentang kehendak ayahnya dan memulai pekerjaan yang ia inginkan sejak…

Fruit stuffed in its mouth, this long-tailed macaque peeks at the photographer from a rooftop in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. To see other photos of the…

We watched this wily gray-footed chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) for a good fifteen minutes as it posed for us in the Okavango Delta. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs, 2009. Photo…

An infant crested black macaque (Macaca nigra). Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. Endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the crested black macaque is listed as Critically Endangered by…

Pak Sia giving afternoon milk to some of his charges. Photo by Janie Dubman. At nineteen years old, young Sia defied his father’s wishes and began a job which he…

Capuchin monkey in Suriname shows off. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2008. To see more photos of capuchins: Capuchin monkeys.

A common woolly monkey at a rehabilitation center in Colombia for animals trafficked in the pet trade. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. The common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) is…

Mother and baby orangutan at Camp Leaky. Photo by Janie Dubman. The lives of over 200 people have been linked to orangutans for 40 years. The people are biologists, firefighters,…

A group of western lowland gorillas in the Congo Basin. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). A new study in PLoS ONE shows that protected areas are essential…

Silver leaf langur baby in the Bronx Zoo’s JungleWorld exhibit. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS. The silver leaf langur baby has a striking orange color in comparison to its…

Baby brown collared lemur clinging to its mother's back in the Bronx Zoo’s Madagascar! exhibit. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS. The Bronx Zoo has put a recently-born, female brown…

A wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) feeds on canopy fruit in Kanyanchu forest, Kibale Forest National Park in Uganada. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. Chimpanzees have become a globally symbol…

An infant Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) in Chobe National Park in the south African nation of Botswana. The baby baboon and his family played on the edge of the Chobe…

The pygmy marmoset is the world's smallest monkey. Photo taken by Rhett A. Butler, March 2010 in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia, near the border with Peru. The Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella…

This woolly monkey is just one of some 30 species of Colombian primates. Photo by: Brodie Ferguson, 2006. A new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science looks…

Tonight, the BBC's Panorama will broadcast a program looking closely at the palm oil issue and how it is affecting orangutans in Borneo. Dying for a Biscuit investigates the palm…

Coquerel's sifakas grooming in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2010. Madagascar is in the midst of an appalling logging crisis driven by greed and politics. Here's a proposal for…

Gray Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2009. New research supports the long-held belief that Madagascar's mammals populated the island by rafting on clumps of vegetation across…

Baby orangutan in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2008. Orangutans vs palm oil in Malaysia: setting the record straight The Malaysian palm oil industry has been broadly accused…

Crowned lemur in Ankarana. Photo taken by Rhett A. Butler in October 2009. Madagascar's rainforests get death notice In what is being called an "awful" and "horrible" move for for…

Red ruffed lemur from the Masoala Peninsula. This endangered red ruffed lemur is endemic to Masoala, where much of the current rosewood logging in Madagascar is occurring. The more widespread…

Orangutan in Central Kalimantan. Photo taken in May 2009 by Rhett A. Butler A substantial population of endangered orangutans could be at risk if a planned road and bridge project…

Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata). Photo taken in October 2009 by Rhett A. Butler The Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) lives in Madagascar's eastern rainforests. Surveys of village residents near…

Black Howler Monkey in the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize. With males averaging 25 pounds and females 14 pounds, the Yucatan Black Howler (Alouatta pigra) is the largest of the…

An orphaned gorilla near Loango National Park in Gabon. The baby gorilla was being treated for a cold at a rehabilitation facility on Evengue island, near Loango National Park. It…

These male sifakas are in the midst of a territorial dispute. The dominant male is chasing off another male Verreaux's sifaka from southern Madagascar is known as the dancing lemur…