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Meaning of colobus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Any of several African monkeys of the genera Colobus, Piliocolobus, and Procolobus.

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Examples

“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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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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