For gaudily marked beasts thecolobus were extraordinarily difficult to see.
Fifty feet down the colobus seized a limb and went skipping away through the branches as lively as ever.
At the time I thought he must have been frightened into falling; but many subsequent experiences showed me that this sheer let-go-all-holds drop is characteristic of the colobus and his mode of progression.
We took about twenty boys into the jungle with us, and as soon as we caught sight of a colobus we chased him madly.
Arriving at the spot we craned our heads backward, and proceeded to get a crick in the neck trying to make out invisible colobus in the very tops of the trees above us.
And yet this method, simple apparently to the point of imbecility, had considerable logic back of it after all; for after a time somebody managed to get underneath that colobus when he was at the top of a tree.
I procured our desired number of colobus by taking advantage of this habit-as soon as we had learned it.
Monkey-corpses were flung upon the floor, and Colobus kirki joined the Dodo, the Auk, the Rhytina and the Moa, in the limbo of species extinguished by the act of man.
A colobus barked somewhere in the tops; the small green monkeys swung from limb to limb, or scampered along the rope vines, chattering.
In Semnopithecus and Colobus there are generally seven, but sometimes eight pairs of true ribs.
Among them are the aborted index finger of the lemurine Potto, and the thumbless hands of Colobus and Ateles, the "life-saving action" of either of which he thinks incredible.
The black Colobus monkeys with their white-plumed tails chattered and showed their teeth and flopped from branch to branch in the leafy canopy, not used to this tumultuous invasion of their solitudes.
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