Colobus

E815501

genus taxon

Colobus is a genus of Old World monkeys known for their striking black-and-white fur, reduced thumbs, and specialized leaf-eating adaptations.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Colobus canonical	1
black-and-white colobus	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ
activityPattern	diurnal ⓘ
belongsTo	tribe Colobini NERFINISHED ⓘ
class	Mammalia ⓘ
commonName	black-and-white colobus monkeys ⓘ colobus monkeys ⓘ
describedAs	Old World monkeys ⓘ
diet	folivorous ⓘ leaf-eating ⓘ
family	Cercopithecidae NERFINISHED ⓘ
foundIn	Central Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ East Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
habitat	gallery forests ⓘ montane forests ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ
hasAdaptation	elongated gut for fermenting leaves ⓘ sacculated stomach ⓘ specialized stomach for leaf digestion ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	black-and-white fur ⓘ long tail ⓘ reduced thumbs ⓘ slender body ⓘ
includesSpecies	Colobus angolensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Colobus guereza NERFINISHED ⓘ Colobus polykomos ⓘ Colobus satanas NERFINISHED ⓘ Colobus vellerosus NERFINISHED ⓘ
is	leaf-eating primate genus ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
locomotion	arboreal ⓘ leaping ⓘ
nativeTo	Africa ⓘ sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	reduced or absent thumbs ⓘ specialized leaf-eating adaptations ⓘ striking black-and-white coloration ⓘ
order	Primates ⓘ
parentTaxon	Colobinae ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
socialStructure	group-living ⓘ
subfamily	Colobinae NERFINISHED ⓘ
taxonomicRank	genus ⓘ
typeSpecies	Colobus guereza NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Colobus
Description of subject: Colobus is a genus of Old World monkeys known for their striking black-and-white fur, reduced thumbs, and specialized leaf-eating adaptations.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cercopithecidae → hasNotableGenus → Colobus ⓘ

Colobinae → notableSpecies → Colobus ⓘ

this entity surface form: black-and-white colobus