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ABC News reported

Scientists may have discovered why one of the most threatened species in the world has bounced back from the brink of extinction.

Populations of the Hainan gibbon – a critically endangered primate species found on the Hainan island on the South China Sea – dwindled to as low as 13 individuals by 2003. But the population experienced a “mysterious” rebound from near-extinction, nearly tripling in the two decades since, according to a paper published in Science Advances.

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