red colobus

plural red colobuses

1. Any Old World monkey of the genus Piliocolobus.

   Among them are the chimpanzee, the Diana monkey, the red colobus monkey, and the pygmy hippopotamus.

   2007, Suzanne LeVert, Cultures of the World: Sierra Leone, page 71

   1 more example

   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.

   2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019