It is hard to guess what a Western red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western red colobus (Procolobus badius) on average weights 8.43 kg (18.58 lbs).
The Western red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Procolobus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.4 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Western 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 western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius), also known as the bay red colobus, rust red colobus or Upper Guinea red colobus, is a species of Old World monkey in West African forests from Senegal to Ghana. All other species of red colobuses have formerly been considered subspecies of P. badius. It is often hunted by the common chimpanzee. In 1994, western red colobus monkeys infected many chimpanzees with Ebola virus when they were hunted and eaten by the chimpanzees.
Animals of the same family as a Western red colobus
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Thomas’s langur bringing 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) to the scale
- Proboscis monkey bringing 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs) to the scale
- Crested mona monkey bringing 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) to the scale
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey bringing 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) to the scale
- Formosan rock macaque bringing 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs) to the scale
- Black snub-nosed monkey bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- East Javan langur bringing 9.72 kilos (21.43 lbs) to the scale
- Grivet bringing 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Western red colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Procolobus badius:
- Malayan porcupine with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a weight of 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs)
- Western brush wallaby with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Toolache wallaby with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Short-eared dog with a weight of 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western red colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western red colobus:
- Capped langur with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ground pangolin with a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bald uakari with a size of 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Marbled cat with a size of 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Andean mountain cat with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- King colobus with a size of 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tonkean macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western red colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Western red colobus: