colobi

Noun

colobus (plural colobuses or colobi)

1. Any of several African monkeys of the genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   colobus monkey