Jozani Forest

This guide to Jozani Forest in Zanzibar City opens in 1868 with the Scottish naturalist John Kirk, once David Livingstone's travelling companion, kneeling at a thicket to sketch a troop of red-black monkeys unlike any colobus he had studied before. You'll hear how a specimen sent to London got the animal named after him, and how islanders had their own name for the same creature, kima punju, the poison monkey, tied to a belief that shaped how they treated it for generations. The guide follows what that belief meant for the species on this one small island. Listen for movement in the canopy overhead as you walk the boardwalk.