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Preuss's Red Colobus (Piliocolobus preussi) is a species of red colobus monkey from Lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. It had once been considered a subspecies of the Western Red Colobus monkey.[3] Like other colobus monkeys it is primarily a leaf eater. Preuss's Red Colobus has a black head, a black back ticked with orange, and bright red tail, limbs and cheeks.[3] It lives in tall primary forests near water in Cameroon.[3]
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- ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 170. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Piliocolobus preussi. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2007. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
- ^ a b c Rowe, Noel (1996). The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates, 175.
