This rare baby orange monkey will absolutely melt your heart

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Johnny Lieu
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How much cute can you handle? We're about to break you.

Baby Nangua is the newest, cutest addition to Sydney's Taronga Zoo, a male Francois’ langur which is one of the world's rarest monkeys.

Nangua is the Mandarin word for pumpkin, which if you hadn't noticed just so happens to be the shade of this monkey's hair.

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He was discovered in his mother Meili's arms on Nov. 7, with zookeepers saying in a statement Nangua is already receiving plenty of attention from his mother and the other females, Noel and Elke. How could you resist?

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These creatures are also called Francois' leaf monkeys, and when born usually have bright orange hair. Some newborns can be brown or white however, with their hair colour slowly changing until reaching black when they're one year old, according to San Francisco Zoo. This difference is thought to help the adults identify their infants.

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Francois' langurs also practice allomothering, a method in which other females help raise the baby, so baby Nangua will be passed around as each 'aunt' take its turns caring for him.

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The current population of the Francois' langur stands at around 2,000 globally, with concentrations in northern Vietnam and south-west China, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the U.S.

Once widespread in China and Vietnam, they have now become the world's rarest due to habitat loss and poaching for traditional medicines.

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Has your heart melted yet? We told you so.

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