It is hard to guess what a Angola colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis) on average weights 8.99 kg (19.82 lbs).
The Angola colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Colobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56.5 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Angola 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 Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis), Angolan black-and-white colobus or Angolan colobus, is a primate species of Old World monkey belonging to the genus Colobus.
Animals of the same family as a Angola colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Sun-tailed monkey bringing 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs) to the scale
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
- Black colobus bringing 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs) to the scale
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per litter
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) to the scale
- Chacma baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
- Maroon leaf monkey bringing 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs) to the scale
- Pagai Island macaque bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Hamadryas baboon bringing 14.97 kilos (33 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Angola colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colobus angolensis:
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Tasmanian devil with a weight of 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs)
- Fishing cat with a weight of 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs)
- Southern muriqui with a weight of 10.57 kilos (23.3 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
- Assam macaque with a weight of 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Angola colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Angola colobus:
- Silvery gibbon with a size of 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Bahamian raccoon with a size of 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Agile wallaby with a size of 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Diana monkey with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Royal antelope with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Crab-eating macaque with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Spotted-necked otter with a size of 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Angola colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Angola colobus: