Sunday 24 December 2017

Hope for one of the world's rarest primates: First census of Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey


Three times as many as assumed, but population in decline

Date:  December 14, 2017
Source:  Wildlife Conservation Society

Summary:
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 archipelago off the coast of East Africa.

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