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 ...

Conservationists and scientists from almost 20 institutions in the United States, Europe, and Africa, have concluded that immediate conservation efforts to protect red colobus monkey species could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Red colobus monkeys are back in action. Foreign oil pollution nearly made these primates, indigenous to the marshy Niger Delta region, go extinct. Oil spills were frequent, pushing former fishing ...

image: A team of WCS 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 ...

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 ...

Welcome back, Bouvier's red colobus monkey. It's been a while. The African primate hasn't been seen since the 1970s and was assumed to have become extinct. But, in a statement released late last week, ...