Biologists have recently been interested in Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey (Procolobus badius) because it is ____

a. increasing in numbers
b. a pest to farmers
c. thought to be extinct
d. capable of carrying HIV
e. capable of carrying the Ebola virus


ANSWER: c

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