Pictures and facts about the Black colobus

Black colobus

Order : Primates
Family : Cercopithecidae
Subfamily : Colobinae
Species : Colobus satanas

 

The Black colobus is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the black colobus

A different specialist may think that the Northern Black Colobus is a distinct or full species and refer to it as Colobus caudatus. (Full text)

Of the three species, the endangered black colobus is the best known. (Full text)

The black colobus is one of Africa's ten most endangered m (KRT Photos) (book reviews) (Canadian Journal of History) (Full text)

1. colobus, colobus monkey -- (arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs)
colobus
colobus monkey
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