red colobus

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red colobus (plural red colobuses)

  1. Any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus.
    • 2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 July 2019:
      Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.

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