Despite their remarkably adaptive behavior, many guenon species are threatened by habitat encroachment and human conflict. The owl-faced guenon, which lives in the Congo, is listed as vulnerable — a situation that has been exacerbated by the fact that its entire geographic range is in an area of violent social and political conflict.
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