The endangered Zanzibar red colobus is a rare primate that lives only in the Zanzibar archipelago. New research from Bangor University primatologists, national park managers from Zanzibar, and the ...

Across Africa, red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus spp.) are threatened by hunting and loss of forest habitat. The presence of red colobus monkeys, whose range overlaps with that of three-quarters of ...

Half of the 6,000 remaining Zanzibar red colobus monkeys, a species endemic to the island, are found in Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park, where getting hit by a vehicle is a leading cause of their ...

A wildlife patrol at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo filmed the first-ever video of a “very rare” monkey species. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto During a routine survey at a ...

Researchers in Cameroon are aiming to use the red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus spp.) as both a standard-bearer for conservation and a barometer of forest health. Red colobus are tree-dwelling monkeys ...

For years I spent my days, from before dawn until after dusk, following a troop of mostly arboreal, endangered western red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) around a small West African ...

Bouvier’s red colobus monkey was ‘rediscovered’ after an expedition up river and through swamps in the Republic of the Congo “They have a nice black eyebrow, but I especially liked the fluffy white ...

A team of scientists recently completed the first-ever range-wide population census of the Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus kirkii) an endangered primate found only on the Zanzibar ...

Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study from the University of Illinois ...

The Bouvier's red colobus monkey is apparently one of the most camera-shy monkeys in the Republic of Congo. They're so camera shy that they allegedly haven't been spotted in forests for more than half ...