How big does a Black colobus get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Black colobus (Colobus satanas) reaches an average size of 62.9 cm (2′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 9.1 kg (20.07 lbs). The Black colobus (genus: Colobus) is a member of the family Cercopithecidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The black colobus (Colobus satanas), or satanic black colobus, is a species of Old World monkey belonging to the genus Colobus. The species is found in a small area of western central Africa. Black colobuses are large, completely covered with black fur, and like all other Colobus monkeys, do not have a thumb. The species has faced large declines in population due to habitat destruction and hunting by humans, and was consequently listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 1994.
Animals of the same family as a Black colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Assam macaque with a size of 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pagai Island macaque with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per litter
- François’ langur with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Javan surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Black colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black colobus:
- Water chevrotain with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Side-striped jackal with a size of 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pygathrix bieti with a size of 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Small Indian civet with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Andean mountain cat with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Egyptian mongoose with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same weight as a Black colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colobus satanas:
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs)
- Water chevrotain with a weight of 10.83 kilos (23.88 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter with a weight of 8.96 kilos (19.75 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)