Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey
Piliocolobus kirkii
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 445
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- Conservation
- Endangered
Description
The Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) 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. It is now classified as an endangered species and in the mid-1990s was adopted as the flagship species for conservation in Zanzibar.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Zanzibar red colobus”.