Photo Gallery | Baby Colobus Monkey At The Saint Louis Zoo A
black and white colobus monkey was born at the Saint Louis Zoo’s
Primate House on June 30. Naming will await determination of the
monkey’s gender. The infant is the sibling of “Mosi”, now 13
months old and the first colobus to be born at the Zoo in 11
years. Colobus infants are born with all white hair and a pink
face. In contrast, adults are primarily black, with white hair
encircling their face and half of their tail. They have a
distinctive mantle of long white hair extending from their
shoulders around the edge of their back. Infants will change
color gradually until they reach adult coloration at about six
months. The 24-year-old mother “Roberta” came to the Saint Louis
Zoo in 2010 after attempts to introduce her to the colobus group
at Binder Park Zoo in Michigan were unsuccessful. After the move
to St. Louis, Roberta was easily integrated with the Zoo’s
13-year-old female “Cecelia,” and both the new baby’s and Mosi’s
father, six-year-old “Kim