Will the Real Lorax Please Stand Up

Decades after Dr. Seuss wrote “The Lorax,” 4 professors think they’ve discovered the real Lorax. Primates living in Kenya called patas monkeys, have distinctive facial features like the Lorax’s mustache. Their voices sound like a “sawdusty sneeze,” and they live on a diet of Truffala-looking whistling thorn acacia trees. Luckily, patas monkeys are not endangered.

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