The Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) is a species of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. It is also known as Kirk's red colobus after Sir John Kirk, the British Resident of Zanzibar who first brought it to the attention of zoological science. It is now classified as an endangered species and in the mid-1990s was adopted as the flagship species for conservation in Zanzibar. The Zanzibari Red colobus is the National Faunae of Tanzanian state of Zanzibar.[1][n 1].
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The Zanzibar red colobus is found in three forests of the Zanzibar archipelago.[2] It displays a wide habit tolerance, but it is mainly an arboreal species and prefers drier areas over wet ones. Its habitats include coastal thickets and coastal rag scrub, but it can also be found in agricultural areas and in mangrove swamps; the latter provides food year-round.[2][3] When found in agricultural areas, the monkey is more used to humans and comes closer to the ground.
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|url-status=ignored (help)[non-primary source needed] - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ciani, Camperio A; et al. (2001). "Survival of a small translocated Procolobus kirkii population on Pemba Island". Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 24 (1).
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