It is hard to guess what a King colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult King colobus (Colobus polykomos) on average weights 8.7 kg (19.19 lbs).
The King colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Colobus). It is usually born with about 490 grams (1.08 lbs). They can live for up to 30.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62.7 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, King 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 king colobus (Colobus polykomos), also known as the western black-and-white colobus, is a species of Old World monkey, found in lowland and mountain rain forests in a region stretching from Senegal, through Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to the Ivory Coast. One of five members of the Genus Colobus which are the black-and-white colobuses. Among all African colobus monkey species, the King colobus (and the Western Red Colobus) is the westernmost species on the continent of Africa. It eats mainly leaves, but also fruits and flowers. Though it is arboreal, it eats primarily on the ground. It lives in small groups consisting of 3 to 4 females and 1 to 3 males, plus their young. These groups maintain distance from one another through territorial calling.
Animals of the same family as a King colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Mandrill bringing 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs) to the scale
- Mantled guereza bringing 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) to the scale
- Assam macaque bringing 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs) to the scale
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Drill (animal) bringing 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs) to the scale
- Allen’s swamp monkey bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Black-crested Sumatran langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Grey-cheeked mangabey bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Gee’s golden langur bringing 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) to the scale
- Pennant’s colobus bringing 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a King colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colobus polykomos:
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.18 kilos (18.03 lbs)
- Hog badger with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a weight of 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- American badger with a weight of 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a King colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as King colobus:
- Dusky leaf monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ocelot with a size of 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Corsac fox with a size of 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Marine otter with a size of 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Leopard cat with a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a King colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a King colobus:
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Gray brocket
- Dama gazelle
- South African springhare
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
- Speke’s gazelle
- Indian muntjac
- Red slender loris
- Tibetan antelope
- De Brazza’s monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a King colobus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a King colobus:
- Malayan porcupine with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- Giant anteater with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Amazon river dolphin with an average maximal age of 30 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- Olive baboon with an average maximal age of 25.17 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- Crested servaline genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- California sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years