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17 PERRIER'S SIFAKA HOME Madagascar POPULATION 1,000 to 2,000 --Pressured by agriculture, logging and mining for gemstones, it may have vanished from one of two reserves where it is protected
18 GRAY-SHANKED DOUC LANGUR HOME Vietnam POPULATION fewer than 1000 --Once considered just a variant of its black- and red-shanked cousins, it is thought to be distinct and critically endangered
19 MISS WALDRON'S RED COLOBUS HOME Ghana, Ivory Coast POPULATION unknown --If an African expedition turns up no evidence of this colobus, it may have been the only primate to become extinct in the 20th century
20 BLACK-FACED LION TAMARIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION about 400 --Scientists were amazed that this tamarin, discovered only in 1990, could remain undetected so long in a highly developed part of Brazil
22 SANJE MANGABEY HOME Tanzania POPULATION fewer than 1,500 --Discovered in 1981, this distinctive-looking species, with its orange underbelly and white eyelids, resides only in the fragmented forests of the Udzungwa Mountains