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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bouvier's red colobus monkey had not been seen for more than 50 years, leading some to think it was extinct. That was until two researchers snapped a photo of the rare primate in Ntokou-Pikounda ...