Reading Long Yongcheng's account of his work on the endangered Yunnan golden monkey is a little like diving into a romance novel. For starters, the book is called The Most Adorable Faces in the World: Twenty Tears With the Pink-Lipped Men. The writingis florid ("Their face is quite simply the most beautiful of all animals ... thanks to their glamorous pink lips"); and it's dramatic ("I could do nothing but hold her tightly Her temperamre was dropping, and her breathing weakening"). Hardly the kind of thing you'd expect from a researcher with the august Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the world's foremost authorities on the species.
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