The Niger Delta red colobus[1] (Piliocolobus epieni) is a critically endangered colobus native to the western part of the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria.
- The Niger Delta red colobus monkeys have gorgeous coloring. Their backs are rust-orange in color, while their faces, hands, legs, and parts of their upper back are black.
- Their stomach and arms are white. Their heads are relatively small, and they have round bellies.
- Like many other arboreal primates, they have very long arms and legs, which are essential to spending their lives leaping from branches.
- Their tail is also very long, helping them navigate their arboreal environment.
- Like other colobus monkeys, the Niger Delta red colobus monkey does not have thumbs. Instead, there is just a minor bump where the thumb would be.
