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Chinese scientists say they have discovered the world's newest monkey species CHEN LIANG

Chance, or "luck", has played an important role in many breakthrough scientific discoveries, and Lady Fortune was up to her old tricks again recently as she helped produce one of the country's most important zoological discoveries of the decade - the world's newest monkey.

The "lucky" discoverers of the white-cheeked macaque are Li Cheng, an amateur naturalist and wildlife photographer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Fan Pengfei, one of China's leading primatologists who works at Dali University in Yunnan province, and his colleague Zhao Chao, who is also a dedicated wildlife photographer.