colobus

See also: Colobus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Colobus, from the genus name.

Noun

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Wikipedia

colobus (plural colobuses)

1. (zoology) Any of several African monkeys of the genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus.

   Synonym: colobus monkey

   • 2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 July 2019:

     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.

Derived terms

• red colobus

Translations

African monkeys

Catalan: còlob m Chinese: Mandarin: 疣猴 (yóuhóu) Finnish: gueretsa Irish: moncaí colabach m Italian: colobo (it) m Russian: коло́бус (ru) m (kolóbus), гвере́ца (ru) f (gveréca), толстоте́лая обезья́на f (tolstotélaja obezʹjána) Swahili: mbega (sw) Tooro: engeye class 9 Yoruba: ẹdun

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