What is the maximal age a King colobus reaches?
An adult King colobus (Colobus polykomos) usually gets as old as 30.5 years.
King colobuss are around 172 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 490 grams (1.08 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Colobus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 62.7 cm (2′ 1″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The king colobus (Colobus polykomos), also known as the western black-and-white colobus, is a species of Old World monkey, found in lowland and mountain rain forests in a region stretching from Senegal, through Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to the Ivory Coast. One of five members of the Genus Colobus which are the black-and-white colobuses. Among all African colobus monkey species, the King colobus (and the Western Red Colobus) is the westernmost species on the continent of Africa. It eats mainly leaves, but also fruits and flowers. Though it is arboreal, it eats primarily on the ground. It lives in small groups consisting of 3 to 4 females and 1 to 3 males, plus their young. These groups maintain distance from one another through territorial calling.
Animals of the same family as a King colobus
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cercopithecidae):
- Japanese macaque becoming 33 years old
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating macaque becoming 38 years old
- Blue monkey becoming 27.08 years old
- Guinea baboon becoming 40 years old
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur becoming 25 years old
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as King colobus
With an average age of 30.5 years, King colobus are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Daubenton’s bat usually reaching 28 years
- Water buffalo usually reaching 28.25 years
- Golden lion tamarin usually reaching 24.75 years
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 33 years
- Spotted seal usually reaching 35.5 years
- South American sea lion usually reaching 24.75 years
- Bobcat usually reaching 32.33 years
- Ryukyu flying fox usually reaching 31 years
- South American sea lion usually reaching 24.75 years
- Bearded seal usually reaching 31.42 years
Animals with the same number of babies King colobus
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Spectral tarsier
- Dibatag
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
- Senegal bushbaby
- Buffy flower bat
- Rodrigues flying fox
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
- White-throated guenon
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Tickell’s bat
Weighting as much as King colobus
A fully grown King colobus reaches around 8.7 kg (19.19 lbs). So do these animals:
- Western red colobus weighting 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) on average
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey weighting 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs) on average
- Patagonian mara weighting 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) on average
- Fossa (animal) weighting 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) on average
- Indri weighting 8.61 kilos (18.98 lbs) on average
- Black-headed spider monkey weighting 9.07 kilos (20 lbs) on average
- East Javan langur weighting 9.72 kilos (21.43 lbs) on average
- North American porcupine weighting 7.42 kilos (16.36 lbs) on average
- Honey badger weighting 9 kilos (19.84 lbs) on average
- Red-shanked douc weighting 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a King colobus
Those animals grow as big as a King colobus:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pygmy hog with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray dorcopsis with 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Agile wallaby with 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Maned sloth with 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black crested gibbon with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-striped dorcopsis with 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Plains viscacha with 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pale-throated sloth with 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)