THE father of Mojo, the monkey who made headlines by escaping from Belfast Zoo in June, was back in the limelight yesterday. Tommy, a busy man since arriving in Belfast from Krefeld Zoo in Germany eight years ago, has fathered two new colobus monkeys, bringing his grand total of offspring to 21.

Twenty-eight years after intense selective logging stopped in the region now known as Uganda's Kibale National Park, the red-tailed guenon (Cercophithecus ascanius) is a primate still in decline. The logging practice, scientists report in a new study, changed the ecological balance for these monkeys, leading to behavioral changes and opening the door for multiple parasitic infections.

Human activities such as hunting and logging have driven nearly one quarter of the world's primate species - man's closest living relatives - to the brink of extinction, according to a new report.

By JOHN McCARTHY COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A species of monkey thought likely to be extinct may still be swinging through the trees in Africa, according to an anthropologist.The Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey was declared likely extinct in 2000 by a team that included W.