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colobines  

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  • Colobine primates make up one of the two major groups of Old World monkeys. All Old World monkeys are members of a single family,Cercopithecidae, consisting of two subfamilies, Cercopithecinae (the cercopithecines) and Colobinae (the colobines). [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Colobines]

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