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Colobus

a leaf-eating monkey, 1.5 to 2.5 ft long, 15 to 18 lb, striking black and white coat color, white at birth.
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I don't know whether to slit my wrists or don my colobus monkey head dress, attach cow bells to my ankles and break out in song and dance.
Kenyans' political ways are so strange, maybe it's in the DNA
Found in the forests of central Africa, adult Kikuyu colobus monkeys have black bodies trimmed with long white mantles.
LOS ANGELES
Themed days with treats and talks include Beat-the- Heat Saturdays (meerkats, cougars and Stellar sea lions); Sno-Cone Sundays (polar bears, elephants, lorikeets, the zoo's new baby colobus monkey and an ocelot kitten); Mighty Mai Tai Mondays (grizzly bear and elephants); Tropical Tuesdays (mandrills and lorikeets); Big Wave Wednesdays (chimps, Steller sea lions); Beach Party Thursdays (wolves and hippos); and Aloha Fridays (orangutans and wolves).
Zoo schedules special spring break activities
Police seized the coat during the show and tests confirmed it was made from the fur of a colobus monkey.
No charges for CBB Pete over monkey fur coat
Experts from the Natural History Museum have confirmed that the coat is not made from gorilla fur but from the fur of the colobus monkey.
Legal probe over Pete Burns' monkey fur coat
Clive's chosen study subject was the red colobus monkey, and his study site the riverine forest of the Tana river, close to Kenya's coast.
Clive Marsh. (Memorials)
The red colobus monkey, for example, is distributed across the entire equatorial waist of Africa, from Senegal to eastern Kenya.
Death in the family tree
The Jozani Natural Forest Reserve, located in the central east region of the island, is home to the rare Red Colobus Monkey, endemic in Zanzibar.
Exotic Zanzibar: Zanzibar, which has lured traders, adventurers, and explorers to its shores for centuries, is now attracting tourists in search of new horizons
The monkey got its name because it was originally tied with a long wing from the hair of a colobus monkey.
MONKEY AROUND; RECORD ANGLING
One month earlier a colobus monkey named Mojo climbed a double enclosure fence after an argument with its father.
ZOO'S NEXT? EXCLUSIVE 8 animal runaways have escaped enclosure in 5yrs
A spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said an expert had told them the fur is likely to come from an endangered Colobus monkey.
Singer faces death threats over coat
Her fascinating life allowed me to see past a picturesque town toRed Colobus monkey and, left, Pongwe Beach hotel chalet an island that traded in slavery.
Travel: Zanzibar spiced up my love for Africa; Designer John Amabile is enchanted by the mysteries of paradise island

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