It is hard to guess what a Preuss’s red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Preuss’s red colobus (Procolobus preussi) on average weights 8.91 kg (19.64 lbs).
The Preuss’s red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Procolobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.9 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Preuss’s red 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.
Preuss’s red colobus (Piliocolobus preussi) is a red colobus primate species endemic to the Cross-Sanaga Rivers ecoregion. An important population occurs in Korup National Park, Southwest Province, Cameroon, but the species’ distribution is localized (groups are frequently encountered near the main tourist camps). The species is considered present in adjacent Cross River National Park – Oban Division in Nigeria and hunter reports suggest that few groups remain in Nkwende Hills and Nta Ali Forest Reserve in the broader Korup region. A population is also present in Ebo forest, Littoral Province of Cameroon.
Animals of the same family as a Preuss’s red colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Pig-tailed langur bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Stump-tailed macaque bringing 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs) to the scale
- Black colobus bringing 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs) to the scale
- Black-crested Sumatran langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Red-shanked douc bringing 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs) to the scale
- Lion-tailed macaque bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pygathrix bieti bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed gray langur bringing 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Preuss’s red colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Procolobus preussi:
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Short-eared dog with a weight of 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Dingiso with a weight of 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna with a weight of 8.95 kilos (19.73 lbs)
- Angola colobus with a weight of 8.99 kilos (19.82 lbs)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Preuss’s red colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Preuss’s red colobus:
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Purple-faced langur with a size of 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-thighed surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Preuss’s monkey with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Dingiso with a size of 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Brown woolly monkey with a size of 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Preuss’s red colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Preuss’s red colobus: