Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
Colobus guereza
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
Colobus guereza
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Class
Mammalia -
Order
Primates -
Familly
Cercopithecidae
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50-75cm -
6-13kg -
5- 6 months -
1 -
25-30 years
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Diet
vegetarian (mainly leaves but also fruit, buds and flowers) -
Habitat
tropical forests -
Range
Central Africa -
This species is part of a European Breeding Program
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Population in the wild
En diminution -
IUCN REDLIST status
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus are the largest of the Colobinae subfamily. Like other Colobinae primates, they have a compartmentalised stomach that helps them digest cellulose in the leaves they consume in great quantity. Their fur is uniformly black except around their face and at the end of their tail, where it is white. They also have a long U-shaped coat of white fur extending from the shoulders to the hindquarters.
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus live in mixed groups of 8–15. Newborns have uniformly white, curly fur, but over 3–4 months it darkens, grows and loses its ‘bumpy’ look for good.
The name colobus comes from the Greek kolobos, meaning ‘mutilated’. This monkey is so called because it lacks a thumb.
And in the wild
