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Colobus
(redirected from colobus monkeys)

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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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Our tables overlooked Primate Island, where kikuyu colobus monkeys - the ones whose fur and coloring evoke an '80s hair band - frolicked in a tall tree.
Characterization of a novel simian immunodeficiency virus from guereza colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) in Cameroon: a new lineage in the nonhuman primate lentivirus family.
The Ape Alliance, a Cambridge, England-based coalition of primate-related organizations, has reported that while primates don't represent a large proportion of the whole trade, overhunting is a serious threat c to chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, colobus monkeys, and some other species.
 
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