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colobus
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Noun1.colobuscolobus - arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
colobus monkey
catarrhine, Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
genus Colobus - a genus of Cercopithecidae
Colobus guereza, guereza - a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body


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Our tables overlooked Primate Island, where kikuyu colobus monkeys - the ones whose fur and coloring evoke an '80s hair band - frolicked in a tall tree.
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The Ape Alliance, a Cambridge, England-based coalition of primate-related organizations, has reported that while primates don't represent a large proportion of the whole trade, overhunting is a serious threat c to chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, colobus monkeys, and some other species.
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