Today's creature: Zanzibar Red Colobus 🐒 The Zanzibar red colobus is a species of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. It is also known as Kirk's red colobus after Sir John Kirk, the British Resident of Zanzibar who first brought it to the attention of zoological science. Procolobus kirkii. Medium sized for a monkey, Zanzibar red colobus adults grow up to 50cm tall and weigh around 7 kg. Females are slightly bigger but lig

Speed bumps could save these rare red colobus monkeys. The species is endemic to Zanzibar. There are fewer than 6,000 of these monkeys left in the country and half of them live in Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park. Unlike other monkeys like chimps who are wary of roads, red colobus monkeys seem unperturbed by cars driving by. Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/no-monkey-business-for-zanzibars-red-colobus-speed-bumps-are-lifesavers/ | Mongabay.com

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This strange primate has long, bristly white hairs, cannot eat sugar, and lives in only one place on Earth. Meet the Zanzibar red colobus. | Brut nature