It is hard to guess what a Tana River red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tana River red colobus (Piliocolobus rufomitratus) on average weights 8.03 kg (17.7 lbs).
The Tana River red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Piliocolobus). 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:
- De Brazza’s monkey bringing 5.32 kilos (11.73 lbs) to the scale
- Pygathrix bieti bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Allen’s swamp monkey bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Mantled guereza bringing 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkean macaque bringing 10.07 kilos (22.2 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs) to the scale
- Hose’s langur bringing 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs) to the scale
- Mentawai langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Hamadryas baboon bringing 14.97 kilos (33 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 Piliocolobus rufomitratus:
- Asian golden cat with a weight of 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs)
- Western brush wallaby with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Jungle cat with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker with a weight of 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 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:
- Pagai Island macaque with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Dusky pademelon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rhesus macaque with a size of 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Javan surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Rüppell’s fox with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
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: