5 Reasons To Celebrate Colobus Day
Colobus Just Monkeying Around Flickr user Eric Kilby The colobi are a group of Old World monkeys (meaning, from Africa or Asia) that are widespread throughout Africa. They are better than Christopher Columbus for the following reasons. 1. Amazing Jumpers The various species of colobus monkey--there are about five distinct species, some with subspecies--are probably the most arboreal of all African monkeys. They live in rainforests and cloud forests, and can leap absurdly long distances. It's not uncommon to see colobus monkeys leaping 20 feet from tree to tree. These aren't big monkeys; that's the equivalent of a weak bad-jumping human leaping about 50 feet from a standstill. I could not find any documentation of Christopher Columbus's jumping ability, which indicates to me that he was not as good a jumper as a colobus monkey. Colobus Tails...