Angolan Colobus

• The white fringes on its shoulders work as a rudimentary parachute: as it launches itself between trees, the long hair increases air resistance and cushions leaps that can exceed fifteen metres.
• Its skins were traded for centuries in East Africa as ceremonial ornament, and at the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of colobus skins were being exported to Europe.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (mammal)

Habitat and environment

Montane rainforest, bamboo forest and gallery forest of Central and East Africa

Sexual maturity

4.5 years

Gestation / incubation

6.3 months

Litter / clutch size

1

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.