Monkeys Starting with K

The Kaapori capuchin lives only in Brazil's eastern Amazon. It is Critically Endangered. Brazil suspects an 85% decline from 1972 to 2020. Forest clearing is the main threat.

The Kanamari white uakari was the only animal formally described as a new species in the 2022 revision of the bald uakaris. It is a whitish monkey with a bare red face and a reddish orange beard, living in white-water flooded forest on the right bank of the Rio Tarauacá in western Brazil. Its name honours the Amuna-dyapas, a Kanamari subgroup, and comes from a Katukina word for uakari monkey. The IUCN lists it as Least Concern, with its population trend recorded as stable, and a range the describing paper estimates at 30,028 square kilometers.

The Kashmir gray langur is an Old-World monkey, one of the species of langurs. The Kashmiri gray langur derives its scientific name, Semnopithecus ajax, from a character in the ancient Greek poem – The Iliad – set during the Trojan War.

The Kinda baboon (Papio kindae) is a species of baboon found in the Miombo forests of Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and possibly western Tanzania. The species is named after the town in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The king colobus (Colobus polykomos), also called the western black and white colobus is a species of Old World monkey found in lowland and montane rainforests.

Kulinas' mustached tamarin was described in January 2023, from a block of Brazilian Amazon between the Juruá and Tefé rivers. Nobody had collected a mustached tamarin there before. A yellow band on each mantle hair separates it from the moustached tamarin, whose band is orange. The description examined nine museum specimens and provides no data on its ecology or social organization in the wild.