It is hard to guess what a Black colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black colobus (Colobus satanas) on average weights 9.1 kg (20.07 lbs).
The Black colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Colobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62.9 cm (2′ 1″).
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 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:
- Moustached guenon bringing 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) to the scale
- Collared mangabey bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese macaque bringing 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs) to the scale
- Mentawai langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Dusky leaf monkey bringing 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary macaque bringing 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs) to the scale
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs) to the scale
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:
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal with a weight of 10.4 kilos (22.93 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 10.48 kilos (23.1 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a weight of 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Fossa (animal) with a weight of 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs)
- Short-eared dog with a weight of 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs)
- Red-shanked douc with a weight of 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
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:
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Spotted-necked otter with a size of 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Small Indian civet with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian crested porcupine with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Indian pangolin with a size of 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)