
On the subject of monkeys, while the Himba made the great leap in Africa from a handful to one billion, the Oxford botanists estimate the world’s most populous family (whose members can include more than 1,000 species) was 1 million in 1996. And that is an improvement over only the 2000s.
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Curiously, the no-more-monkeys-in-the-apartment feeling is shared across the generations, too, according to a Guardian survey: while more than half (53%) of those aged 65 or older think we are running out of monkeys, 44%
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