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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(zoology) 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.
Use colobus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Colobus means (zoology) Any of several African monkeys of the genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus..
Common synonyms include colobus monkey.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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