25 Most Endangered Primates : Old world monkeys - Africa (poll).

Which Old world African monkey species will you vote for ?

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Onychorhynchus coronatus

Onychorhynchus coronatus

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This is the third installment in a series of polls based on the IUCN 25 Most Endangered Primates, this time featuring the Old world monkeys native to Africa that appeared in the 2018-2020 list.

Zoochatters can vote based on the primate species whose conservation they would most like to see prioritized, that they consider to be their favourite, whose plight moves them most, or that interests them.

A discussion on these species and the conservation of endangered primate species in general is something I would like to encourage in the comment section too.

Which species will you vote for and why?
 
This is going to be an unpopular vote, and it was either this or the Kipunji, but here we go. I chose the Tana river red colobus, because I personally think its one of my favorite old-world monkeys. And I always loved it as a kid. This monkey is facing a lot of threat right now, and the fact that there aren't any in captivity unlike the roloway monkey, probably tells me that its more vulnerable currently. However, the Kipunji is one really unique monkey, and since we don't know virtually anything about it, its probably an even harder challenge to try to conserve this species. I also think the males of the Tana river red colobus looks really cool and unique.
So yeah, probably won't make the cut, but me personally is headed towards the Tana river red colobus.
I do understand why you voted for the Roloway monkey, surely a precious primate, and would be a devastating loss for sure.
 
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CheeseChameleon2007 said:
This is going to be an unpopular vote, and it was either this or the Kipunji, but here we go. I chose the Tana river red colobus, because I personally think its one of my favorite old-world monkeys. And I always loved it as a kid. This monkey is facing a lot of threat right now, and the fact that there aren't any in captivity unlike the roloway monkey, probably tells me that its more vulnerable currently. However, the Kipunji is one really unique monkey, and since we don't know virtually anything about it, its probably an even harder challenge to try to conserve this species. I also think the males of the Tana river red colobus looks really cool and unique.
So yeah, probably won't make the cut, but me personally is headed towards the Tana river red colobus.
I do understand why you voted for the Roloway monkey, surely a precious primate, and would be a devastating loss for sure.
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I don't think there is such a thing as an unpopular vote in this poll as each vote is subjective.

This is an interesting one, I'm quite suprised you knew about it as a kid as I definitely wouldn't have had known at that age.

Quite a striking looking animal indeed as most of the red colobus are. I have a colleague who worked with an endangered red colobus species but I can't remember which this was so I'll have to ask her.

I think the challenge with maintaining red colobus in captivity / ex-situ is that being folivores their dietary needs are exceedingly hard to replicate so they really don't tend to do very well in zoos at all unfortunately.

This means that these monkeys are another primate whose conservation management has by necessity to be of the in-situ king.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
I don't think there is such a thing as an unpopular vote in this poll as each vote is subjective.

This is an interesting one, I'm quite suprised you knew about it as a kid as I definitely wouldn't have had known at that age.

Quite a striking looking animal indeed as most of the red colobus are. I have a colleague who worked with an endangered red colobus species but I can't remember which this was so I'll have to ask her.

I think the challenge with maintaining red colobus in captivity / ex-situ is that being folivores their dietary needs are exceedingly hard to replicate so they really don't tend to do very well in zoos at all unfortunately.

This means that these monkeys are another primate whose conservation management has by necessity to be of the in-situ king.
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I knew a lot of interesting animals other people had not heard of when I was younger, since I probably have had this book since the age of six lol.


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I'll give my rationale for voting for the Roloway monkey.

I wanted to vote in a different way from how I have done in the last polls and vote instead on a favourite species and one whose plight moves me most.

This is the only species in this list that I have actually seen in the flesh.

I remember watching the ones kept at CERZA and Jardin des Plantes zoo in France for quite some time and being captivated by them and struck by what a beautiful guenon species they are.

*I think I also saw this species at Edinburgh many years ago too but I'm not 100 % sure and these could have been Diana monkeys instead.
 
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Great to see this old book, you should treasure it, some of the illustrations look brilliant !
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Its on a special shelf in my basement, this is indeed the source for my big love of animals. The story is, I was about six when I went to the Library every Tuesday and Saturday, (this was Tuesday) and I looked at some books. I immediately went down to the Adult animal reference section, (my favorite) and looked at some books, but unfortunately this book was reference and I couldn't take it home. I remember having fond memories saying, "Mom! Look! A falanouc! Or, something like, "Look! A Russian desman!" Those were the days. But I waited until Christmas time and my present was that book which my parents had gotten from a thrift store. I stare at it practically every day since. I have a lot of other old animal books that I used to look at when I was younger, "The pictorial museum of animated nature" And "Encyclopedia of endangered species volumes 1-3". I like these books a lot, literature is how I got into animals and is how I continue to learn about animals.
 
I have a variation of the same book. Here is a link to the book: Longman Illustrated Animal Encyclopaedia: Very Good Paperback | WorldofBooks.

I have liked this book since I first saw it. One of the main reasons was that it included representatives of all families of mammals, birds, reptiles and birds known at the time. The authors admitted that there are too many families of fish to include examples of each family in a book of that size. I think the drawings of reptiles were best as they show various sheens on the skin and shells.
 
A video related to one of the species in this poll from earlier this year, this is the first footage of a Roloway monkey filmed in the wild.

It was obtained by placing camera traps high up in the canopy of the forest of the Eastern Ivory coast.

 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
*I think I also saw this species at Edinburgh many years ago too but I'm not 100 % sure and these could have been Diana monkeys instead.
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Not sure Edinburgh have ever had Roloway Monkeys, they have certainly had Dianas over many years though. The two zoos I know of in UK that have had Roloway's- both in the past though- are Twycross and ( I think) Chester.

I had never even heard of the Kipunji though( where have I been...:eek:) I wonder what its nearest relatives are- the Guenons or the Mangabeys (looks more like the latter perhaps), or neither ?
 
Pertinax said:
Not sure Edinburgh have ever had Roloway Monkeys, they have certainly had Dianas over many years though. The two zoos I know of in UK that have had Roloway's- both in the past though- are Twycross and ( I think) Chester.

I had never even heard of the Kipunji though( where have I been...:eek:) I wonder what its nearest relatives are- the Guenons or the Mangabeys (looks more like the latter perhaps), or neither ?
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I'm pretty sure I saw one of these at Edinburgh (would have been early 2000's) but it is a faint memory now and I concede that it could have been a Diana monkey that I saw.

I know Twycross did have them and many other guenons as I know the current studbook keeper for the De Brazza's monkey and the former studbook keeper for the Roloway monkey (I think... not 100 % sure) .

You never heard of the Kipunji ? o_O It was quite a big discovery back in the 2000's , I remember a couple of articles and news reports covering it but I confess I haven't followed much on the species since.
 
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