Did you know that there are monkeys that sneeze when it rains? Well researches have finally captured photographs of the elusive Myanmar snub-nosed monkey and it seems as though this little money gets the sniffles. Known to locals as the “monkey with an upturned face”, researches identified this as a new species in 2012 from a carcass killed by a local hunter.

Myanmar has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates and the monkeys that live amongst the little-explored forest of northern Myanmar are under threat from hunting and logging. After setting up camera traps last April, the research team has finally capture the first images of this new species.

Image courtesy of MSN.co.nz.