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Piliocolobus badius (western red colobus)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The western red colobus (Procolobus badius) is a species of Old World monkey found in West African forests from Senegal to Ghana. All other species of red colobuses have formerly been considered subspecies of P. badius. It is often hunted by the common chimpanzee. In 1994, western red colobus monkeys infected many chimpanzees with Ebola virus when they were hunted/eaten by the same chimpanzees.
View Wikipedia Record: Piliocolobus badius

Infraspecies

Piliocolobus badius badius (Upper Guinea Red Colobus)
Piliocolobus badius temminckii (Temminck's Red Colobus)

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Piliocolobus badius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
51
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.05
EDGE Score: 4.03
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18.14 lbs (8.228 kg)
Female Weight [1]  15.984 lbs (7.25 kg)
Male Weight [1]  20.298 lbs (9.207 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  27 %
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  4 years
Gestation [1]  5 months 11 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  24 inches (62 cm)

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Stephanoaetus coronatus (Crowned Eagle)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Necator americanus (hookworm)[7]
Pedicinus badii[3]
Pedicinus patas[3]
Pedicinus pictus[3]
Trichuris trichiura (Whipworm)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Sympatric Colobine Species’ Diet and Processing Implications for Paranthropus and Homo hablis Diet, Ecology, and Survival., Brittany R. Burrows, Thesis, University of Florida, Spring 2013
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 6Primate Remains from African Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) Nests in Ivory Coast’s Tai Forest: Implications for Primate Predation and Early Hominid Taphonomy in South Africa, W. Scott McGraw, Catherine Cooke, and Susanne Shultz, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 131:151–165 (2006)
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0