It is hard to guess what a Ursine colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ursine colobus (Colobus vellerosus) on average weights 7.7 kg (16.98 lbs).
The Ursine colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Colobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 63.5 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, Ursine colobuss have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The ursine colobus (Colobus vellerosus, white-thighed colobus, Geoffroy’s black-and-white colobus, white-thighed black-and-white colobus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae.
Animals of the same family as a Ursine colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Black crested mangabey bringing 6.51 kilos (14.35 lbs) to the scale
- Moustached guenon bringing 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs) to the scale
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per litter
- Preuss’s red colobus bringing 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs) to the scale
- François’ langur bringing 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary macaque bringing 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs) to the scale
- East Javan langur bringing 9.72 kilos (21.43 lbs) to the scale
- Patas monkey bringing 7.99 kilos (17.61 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Ursine colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colobus vellerosus:
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a weight of 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs)
- Fishing cat with a weight of 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Bush dog with a weight of 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs)
- Pygmy hog with a weight of 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Red-handed howler with a weight of 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ursine colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ursine colobus:
- Maned sloth with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Agile wallaby with a size of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Small-toothed palm civet with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Indian crested porcupine with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ursine colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ursine colobus: