Mantled guereza

The mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), also called the guereza or the eastern black-and-white colobus, is a black-and-white colobus, a type of Old World monkey in the leaf-eating subfamily Colobinae. It is native to much of west central and east Africa, including Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Chad. The name refers to the long, silky white fringe of hair that forms a mantle along its body, and guereza is the native name of the monkey in Ethiopia. The species is diurnal and arboreal, living in deciduous and evergreen forests, and it is adaptable enough to cope with habitat disturbance and to prefer secondary forest near rivers or lakes. The IUCN lists it as Least Concern because it is widespread, though it is locally threatened and hunted for bushmeat and for its skin, and one Kenyan subspecies is listed as Endangered.