It is hard to guess what a Tana River red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) on average weights 8.07 kg (17.79 lbs).
The Tana River red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Procolobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Tana River 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.
The Tana River red colobus (Piliocolobus rufomitratus), also called the eastern red colobus, is a highly endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to a narrow zone of gallery forest near the Tana River in southeastern Kenya.
Animals of the same family as a Tana River red colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Gee’s golden langur bringing 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) to the scale
- Stump-tailed macaque bringing 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs) to the scale
- Preuss’s monkey bringing 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs) to the scale
- Collared mangabey bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey bringing 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs) to the scale
- White-fronted surili bringing 6.12 kilos (13.49 lbs) to the scale
- Phayre’s leaf monkey bringing 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs) to the scale
- King colobus bringing 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs) to the scale
- Booted macaque bringing 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) to the scale
- Chacma baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Tana River red colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Procolobus rufomitratus:
- Dingiso with a weight of 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs)
- Malayan civet with a weight of 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.18 kilos (18.03 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Red-shanked douc with a weight of 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs)
- Culpeo with a weight of 8.62 kilos (19 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tana River red colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tana River red colobus:
- Bay cat with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Long-nosed mongoose with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tana River red colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tana River red colobus: