Colobus

There are 11 species of monkey including anubis baboon Papio anubis, diana monkey Cercopithecus Diana (EN), green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops, mona monkey C. mona, lesser white-nosed monkey C. petaurista, white collared mangabey Cercocebus torquatus lunulatus, black and white colobus Colobus polykomos and chimpanzee Pan troglodytes (EN).

Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire 2009

Terry Anderson of PERC, the Property and Environmental Research Center, claims that governments have repeatedly failed when they tried to save animals by banning their sale -- it failed with the Colobus monkey in West Africa … with the alligator in China … and now, with the tiger in Asia.

TA Comes Up Big 2009

There are small primate populations of potto Perodicticus potto, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos, red colobus Colobus badius (EN), diana monkey Cercopithecus diana (EN), lesser bushbaby Galago senegalensi and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes (EN) which are close neighbors of the tool-using population in Bossou.

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

This includes four endemic or nearly endemic species of primate – the Sanje Mangabey, the Iringa Red Colobus, the Mountain Galago and the new Kipunji monkey that forms its own monotypic genus.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Other primate species include black-and-white colobus Colobus guereza, red-tailed guenon C. ascanius schmidti, blue guenon C. mitis mitis, vervet C. aethiops, and olive baboon Papio anubis plus nocturnal prosimians.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda 2009

The most common primate recorded by Barber et al. was baboon Papio anubis, with lower numbers of patas and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus patas and C. tantalus), and low numbers of black and white colobus monkeys Colobus guereza in the dry forest.

Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009

A bushy-tailed Colobus monkey sprinted across the savanna.

Karin Badt: From Devils to Zebras: Riccardo Orizio's Safari in Kenya 2009

Three species of primate are found within the montane forests, blue monkey Cercopithecus mitis, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos abyssinicus, and bushbaby Galago sp. and among mammals found there are leopards Panthera pardus, as well as some of the species listed above.

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania 2009

Among the mammals there is a high level of sub-specific endemism, for instance the Rwenzori colobus monkey Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii and Ruwenzori leopard Panthera pardus ruwenzorii.

Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda 2009

Colobus cercopithecidae (red colobus monkey) is sold for about US$200.

Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of armed conflict in Africa 2008