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Black-and-white colobus
Colobus

Colobus angolensis

Species: Colobus angolensis
Photo: Luiz Claudio Marigo

NEWS

Recent news links for Colobus

Guereza colobus monkeys join dawn chorus to 'show off' (BBC; November 28, 2011)
Investigating the Spread of Infectious Diseases With NSF, NIH, U.K. Funding (National Science Foundation; September 13, 2011)
Precursor to H.I.V. Was in Monkeys for Millenniums (New York Times; September 16, 2010)
Global warming indigestion may push gorillas, monkeys to extinction (Times of India; January 13, 2010)
West, Central Africa seen as major source of next new disease (AFP; April 30, 2008)
Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments (PhysOrg.com; October 24, 2007)
Hiccupping monkey to return home (BBC News; January 31, 2007)
Monkeys destroy crops in Tanzania (Business in Africa; June 1, 2006)
Zoos rethink role as wildlife's keeper (Toledo Blade; September 25, 2005)

CONSERVATION

Conservation Information for Colobus

Save the Colobus Monkeys in Diani, Kenya

Conservation News for Colobus

Betsy the abandoned monkey surviving against the odds (Telegraph; April 23, 2011)
Bush-meat fuelling secretive trade in Guinea-Bissau's primates (Ecologist; September 29, 2010)
Forest loss occurring around Kibale National Park in Uganda (Mongabay; June 28, 2010)
Logging Changed Ecological Balance For Monkeys, Damaged Health (ScienceDaily; June 15, 2005)

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