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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
[134] [135] The meat consumption includes predation on other primate species, such as the western red colobus monkey. [117] The bonobo is an omnivorous frugivore – the majority of its diet is fruit, but it supplements this with leaves, meat from small vertebrates, such as anomalures, flying squirrels and duikers, [136] and invertebrates. [137]
Western red colobus, Procolobus badius EN; Olive colobus, Procolobus verus NT; Superfamily: Hominoidea. ... Gland-tailed free-tailed bat, Chaerephon bemmeleni LC;
Udzungwa red colobus; W. Western red colobus; Z. Zanzibar red colobus This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 20:25 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Colobini is a tribe of Old World monkeys that includes all of the black-and-white colobus, red colobus, and olive colobus monkeys. [1] [2] Classification.
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 ...
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.