It is hard to guess what a Western red colobus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius) on average weights 8.43 kg (18.58 lbs).
The Western red colobus is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Piliocolobus). 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:
- Dryas monkey bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Pennant’s colobus bringing 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs) to the scale
- Moustached guenon bringing 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs) to the scale
- Lion-tailed macaque bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Sun-tailed monkey bringing 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs) to the scale
- Agile mangabey bringing 7.11 kilos (15.67 lbs) to the scale
- Angola colobus bringing 8.99 kilos (19.82 lbs) to the scale
- L’Hoest’s monkey bringing 5.31 kilos (11.71 lbs) to the scale
- Southern pig-tailed macaque bringing 7.85 kilos (17.31 lbs) to the scale
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Western red colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Piliocolobus badius:
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- King colobus with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
- Red-shanked douc with a weight of 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Patas monkey with a weight of 7.99 kilos (17.61 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with a weight of 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 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:
- Margay with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pennant’s colobus with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Müeller’s gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Antelope jackrabbit with a size of 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- Patagonian mara with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
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: