Calgary Zoo celebrates ‘Kito’ the colobus monkey’s birthday

The Calgary Zoo celebrates colobus monkey's birthday. (Twitter/ Calgary Zoo)

By Toula Mazloum

Posted Mar 18, 2023 11:51 am.

The Calgary Zoo is celebrating the birthday of it’s eastern black-and-white colobus monkey “Kito.”

The zoo took to Twitter to celebrate and say Kito is four years old now.

“Happy birthday to ‘Kito’!” reads the tweet.

The eastern black-and-white colubus is a small monkey with a U-shaped mantle of long white fur, descending from its shoulders and around its back.

Also, they have whiskers and white fur surrounding their black face.

Colobus monkeys spend most their time on treetops looking for leaves to eat.

Unlike other monkeys, they have a complex stomach allowing them to digest mature or toxic foliage.

They live up to 22 years in closed forests and in areas with large bamboo stands.

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