How big does a King colobus get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown King colobus (Colobus polykomos) reaches an average size of 62.7 cm (2′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 30.5 years, they grow from 490 grams (1.08 lbs) to 8.7 kg (19.19 lbs). A King colobus has 1 babies at once. The King colobus (genus: Colobus) is a member of the family Cercopithecidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per litter
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Assam macaque with a size of 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Crab-eating macaque with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a King colobus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as King colobus:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Pygmy hog with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Maned sloth with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Andean mountain cat with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Red-handed howler with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a King colobus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a King colobus:
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Bontebok
- La Plata dolphin
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Daubenton’s bat
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Sunda pangolin
- Red forest duiker
- Jamaican fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a King colobus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a King colobus:
- Red-bellied titi with an average maximal age of 25.25 years
- Bald uakari with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Water buffalo with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Okapi with an average maximal age of 33 years
- West Indian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Rhesus macaque with an average maximal age of 36 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Honey badger with an average maximal age of 26.5 years
- Rodrigues flying fox with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Amazonian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a King colobus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Colobus polykomos:
- Dingiso with a weight of 9.4 kilos (20.72 lbs)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna with a weight of 8.95 kilos (19.73 lbs)
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Pygmy hog with a weight of 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)
- Collared mangabey with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)