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Mantled guereza

Colobus guereza

Habitat:

Tropical garden at Chale Island, near Mombasa. The mantled guereza is distributed throughout Equatorial Africa. It ranges from Nigeria and Cameroon in the west to Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and northern Tanzania in the east.[

Notes:

The mantled guereza has many alternative common names including the guereza, the eastern black-and-white colobus, the magistrate colobus, or the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus. The name "mantled" refers to its mantle, the long silky white fringes of hair that run along its body and "guereza" is the native name of the monkey in Ethiopia. The scientific name Colobus derives from Greek kolobus meaning "mutilated" which refers to its lack of thumbs.

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Benno Ibold
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Benno Ibold

Kwale, Kenya

Spotted on Jul 25, 2016
Submitted on Sep 18, 2016

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