Thigh-deep in mucky, black water, surrounded by razor-sharp-leaved oil palms and towering white ficus trunks, I searched a ground water forest in East Africa for the endangered Zanzibar red ...

By Spoorthy Raman Camera traps installed in December 2024 in a community conservation area in the Niger Delta have captured the first videos of elusive and critically endangered red colobus monkeys.

Meanwhile, Zanzibar's red colobus monkey — driven to coastal mangroves by deforestation — can struggle to find the freshwater it needs, as Nowak reported in the American Journal of Primatology in 2008 ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania – A group of rare Zanzibar red colobus monkeys crashed recklessly through the trees, squealing as they pulled at each others' tails and raced across tree limbs that swayed ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania • A group of rare Zanzibar red colobus monkeys crashed recklessly through the trees, squealing as they pulled at each others' tails and raced across tree limbs that swayed ...

Zanzibar red colobus monkeys venture into the human world to find charcoal. Zanzibar red colobus monkeys are facing deforestation of their native home range and as a result are turning to raiding ...

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 ...

To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus. Conservation Letters , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/conl.13014 Cite This Page : ...

A red colobus monkey sits near the roof of a building in Zanzibar. A video of a woman shocked by a similar creature entering a home there has gone viral on TikTok.

Niger Delta red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus epieni) are endemic to the marshy woodlands of the Niger Delta, Africa’s largest mangrove forest.When the species was first described in the 1990s ...