It is hard to guess what a Preuss’s red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Preuss’s red colobus (Piliocolobus preussi) on average weights 8.87 kg (19.54 lbs).
The Preuss’s red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Piliocolobus). 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:
- White-thighed surili bringing 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs) to the scale
- Gelada bringing 15.98 kilos (35.23 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Black colobus bringing 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs) to the scale
- François’ langur bringing 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs) to the scale
- Red-tailed monkey bringing 3.54 kilos (7.8 lbs) to the scale
- Toque macaque bringing 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkean macaque bringing 10.07 kilos (22.2 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey bringing 9.09 kilos (20.04 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 Piliocolobus preussi:
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter with a weight of 8.96 kilos (19.75 lbs)
- Southern muriqui with a weight of 10.57 kilos (23.3 lbs)
- Assam macaque with a weight of 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Ursine colobus with a weight of 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs)
- Patagonian mara with a weight of 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs)
- Patas monkey with a weight of 7.99 kilos (17.61 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 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:
- Assam macaque with a size of 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tasmanian devil with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Arctic hare with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
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: