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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team logged 4,725 hours over 2 years tracking down more than 4,000 individual Zanzibar red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus kirkii). Protected areas house nearly 70 percent of the monkeys they found, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a routine survey at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a wildlife patrol team heard some noises coming from the trees. They started filming and ended up recording the ...

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, ...