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In Search of Rare Forest Primates in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

John F. Oates
John F. Oates
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Abstract

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When the author visited Nigeria in 1981 to look at forests on the lower Niger, there had been no reports for 15 years of the red-bellied guenon Cercopithecus erythrogaster, and only a single specimen of the olive colobus Procolobus verus was known from the country. He found surviving populations of both monkeys, but each is threatened by widespread, intensive hunting, and by habitat destruction. If effective measures are not taken to protect the guenon and its rainforest habitat, this species could become extinct, since it occurs only in southwestern Nigeria.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , October 1982 , pp. 431 - 436
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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