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colobus
[ kol-uh-buhs, kuh-loh- ]
noun
- any of several large, slender African monkeys of the genus Colobus, lacking thumbs and having long silky fur of black and white ( C. polykomos ), black and reddish-brown ( C. badius ), or olive ( C. verus ): now dwindling.
colobus
/ ˈkɒləbəs /
noun
- any leaf-eating arboreal Old World monkey of the genus Colobus, of W and central Africa, having a slender body, long silky fur, long tail, and reduced or absent thumbs
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There are some seven species of monkeys, including two baboons and one colobus.
There are almost always five well-developed digits, but in the genera Colobus and Ateles the pollex is vestigial.
In Semnopithecus and Colobus there are generally seven, but sometimes eight pairs of true ribs.
In Africa, the representatives of this last-mentioned tribe are found in the Colobus monkeys.
But his hair contradicts this—being straight as needles, and black as the skin of a Colobus monkey.
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