Colobus guereza

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

They live in forests , and therefore dependant on trees . They are also found in woodlands or wooded grasslands.

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,815 meters (0 to 9,236 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is found in lowland and montane tropical moist forest , and gallery forest. They are often common in secondary or degraded forest. Animals live in small family groups.[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

This monkey's stomach contains three chambers, enabling it to digest tough, mature leaves that other canopy animals cannot eat. Enjoys tree leaves (Celtis durandii, hackberry), leaf buds , blossoms and fruit. They get their water from dew and rainwater in trunk hollows.

Reproduction

There is a birth peak that goes along with the time of year in which there is the greatest abundance of solid food. Colobus monkeys reach their sexual peak at 6 years in males, and 4 years in females. An adult female typically produces one young every 20 months and has a gestation period of 6 months. Both the male and female take care of the infants.

Tongue smacking by the female is usually the initiation of sexual behavior.

Behavior

The most arboreal of African monkeys.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Colobus (Colobus) guereza Ruppell 1835

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Rüppell, E. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig, entdeckt und beschrieben. Amphibien. S. Schmerber, Frankfurt a. M. , 1835.

Last scrutiny: 30-Jul-2002

The subspecies classification of C. guereza is not well resolved (Grubb et al. 2003); this species account provisionally follows the arrangement of Groves (2001) and Grubb et al. (2003) in recognizing eight subspecies.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Colobus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. angolensis (Angolan Black-And-White Colobus) · C. angolensis angolensis (Sclaters Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis cordieri (Cordiers Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis cottoni (Powell-Cotton's Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis nova (Mahale Mtns. Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis palliatus (Peters's Angola Colobus) · C. angolensis prigoginei (Prigogine's Angola Colobus?) · C. angolensis ruwenzorii (Adolf Friedrichss Angola Colobus) · C. guereza (Eastern Black-And -White Colobus) · C. guereza abyssinicus (Guereza) · C. guereza caudatus (Mt. Kilimanjaro Guereza) · C. guereza dodingae (Dodinga Hills Guereza) · C. guereza gallarum (Djaffa Mountains Guereza) · C. guereza guereza (Omo River Guereza) · C. guereza kikuyuensis (Mt. Kenya Guereza) · C. guereza matschiei (Mau Forest Guereza) · C. guereza occidentalis (Western Guereza) · C. guereza percivali (Mt Uaraguess Guereza) · C. polykomos (Western Black-And-White Colobus) · C. polykomos polykomos (Western Black-And-White Colobus) · C. satanas (Black Colobus) · C. satanas anthracinus (Gabon Black Colobus) · C. satanas satanas (Bioko Black Colobus) · C. vellerosus (Black and White Colobus Monkeys)

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Kingdon, J., Struhsaker, T., Oates, J.F., Hart, J. & Groves, C.P. 2008. Colobus guereza. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, Mammal specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 109034
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-573036
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13837572
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 573036
• IUCN ID: 201447
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 499

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,576.170 meters (5,171.161 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,156.590 based on 54 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Kingdon, J., Struhsaker, T., Oates, J.F., Hart, J. & Groves, C.P. 2008. Colobus guereza. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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