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The western red colobus grows to a head-and-body length of 450 to 670 mm (18 to 26 in) with a tail of 520 to 800 mm (20 to 31 in), and a weight of between 5 and 11 kg (11 and 24 lb). It has red or chestnut-brown head and limbs and black, slatey-grey or dark brown upper parts. It does not have long fringes of hair, or tufts of hair on the tail.
The western red colobus is frequently hunted by the common chimpanzee. [6] The members of this genus are found in western, central and eastern Africa, and the species have largely allo-or parapatric distributions. They are primarily arboreal and most are restricted to humid forests, but the Zanzibar red colobus prefers
The adults of these species taken by crowned eagles usually weigh 10.5 kg (23 lb)in males and 7 kg (15 lb) in females, [61] but olive colobus are smaller, weighing less than 5 kg (11 lb), [12] and large adults of western red colobus and Sooty mangabeys can weigh up to 11–12 kg (24–26 lb). [70]
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Pennant's red colobus monkeys have been little studied, but their diet is likely to be similar to that of other red colobus monkeys. They mainly consist of fresh leaves supplemented by flowers, fruit, and seeds. They have specialist teeth that can macerate leaves and break up tough but pliant unripe fruit and the seeds embedded in the flesh.
The African colobus monkeys are divided again by distinctions in color, behavior, and ecology. The three genera are the black-and-white colobi, the red colobi, and the olive colobi. There are three black-and-white colobi: the mantled guereza, Colobus guereza, the king colobus, C. polykomos, and the Angola colobus, C. angolensis. [10]
Miss Waldron's red colobus (Piliocolobus waldronae) [1] is a species of the red colobus native to West Africa. [3] [4] It had previously been described as a subspecies of the western red colobus, P. badius. It has not been officially sighted since 1978 and was considered extinct in 2000.
Temminck's red colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii) is a type of red colobus monkey from the Gambia, Casamance, Guinea-Bissau and northwestern Guinea.It has historically been regarded as a subspecies of the western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius), [1] and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System and Mammal Diversity Database both maintain this classification, [3] [4] but many less ...