Kirk’s red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii)

Species information

Facts & Status
Description
Range & Habitat
Biology
Threats & Conservation
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Range

As its other name suggests, this species is found on the island of Zanzibar. The population is worryingly small today and it is estimated that as few as 1,000 to 1,200 individuals persist, mainly within the Jozani Forest Reserve (6). A small number of individuals live on nearby Pemba Island, in the Ngezi Forest Reserve (7).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Originally found in tropical evergreen forest, which has now been largely destroyed, these monkeys may now also be found in a range of secondary forest, agricultural land and fallow bush (4).