One of the 6 colobuses on WAnimals
Mammals · Primates · Cercopithecidae
Western Red Colobus
Piliocolobus badius
Endangered
At very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future.
The western red colobus is a leaf-eating primate of the forests of West Africa, with a black back and intensely red flanks and limbs. It lives in noisy groups of several dozen animals and digests mature leaves in a compartmentalised stomach. It is the preferred prey of the chimpanzees of Taï National Park, in Côte d'Ivoire, where cooperative chimpanzee hunting was first documented. Hunting and logging have reduced it drastically.
Weight
5 kg – 11 kg
Size
45 cm – 67 cm
Life expectancy
20 years
