The Colobus Monkey
- class: Mammalia
- order: Primates
- family: Ceropithecide
- species: Colobus
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This colobus monkey lives in the trees and only comes down to get salts and water plants from swamps. It moves about in the highest treetops in the forest, making amazing leaps between branches. The black and white coat helps camouflage the colobus among leaves, and if there is any danger it can stay silent for hours. It is exclusively herbivorous and feeds on leaves and fruit.
The colobus monkey lives in territorial groups of about seven, each led by single adult male. The females begin breeding at four years and males at six. There is no particular breeding season, but a female will generally produce a single offspring every two years.
The black-and-white colobus monkey is a large animal. Its coat is black with large white areas from the students to the tail. It also has a broad white ring on its hindquarters. The tail is black at the base and white at the tip. There are many subspecies of this monkey that have different tail shapes and coats. In the nineteenth century many black-and-white colobus monkeys were hunted and killed for their fur.
- distribution: Southern Cameroon, equatorial Guinea and Gabon
- habitat: Forests, especially along rivers and secondary forests.
- biome: Rain forest, Freshwater
- male body length: 2.5 ft.
- male tail length: 2.6 ft.
- male weight: 24 lbs..
- offspring per conception: 1
- gestation period: 26 wk
- time to sexual maturity: 6
yrs.
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