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Endangered Brazilian monkeys get a bridge to themselves

by Associated Press
| August 8, 2020 12:03 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The overpass juts from a forest over a four-lane highway in a rural area outside Rio de Janeiro. It's meant for a very special sort of pedestrian: golden lion tamarins, small orange primates that for decades have been at risk of extinction.

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