Endangered
Ugandan red colobus
Piliocolobus tephrosceles
Ugandan red colobus is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Piliocolobus tephrosceles, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Ugandan red colobus has a rust-red cap with a dark grey to black face, although infants are born with completely black faces. There is more variation amongst the coat colours of the Ugandan red colobus with back colour ranging from black to dark grey through to a reddish brown. The sides of the body and the arms and legs are a light grey.
The average male weighs around 10.5 kg (23 lb) and the females weigh around 7 kg (15 lb).
Range and habitat
The Ugandan red colobus is found only in Africa. It has a distribution spanning 1,000 km (620 mi) of East Africa but populations are only found in five separate forested areas. The habitat of the Ugandan red colobus varies by population.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Ugandan red colobus is a folivore so the main component of its diet is leaves. There is no distinct breeding season with infants being born all year round, however during the rainier months a peak in births is seen to coincide with the flush of new leaves for food.
In crisis
The Ugandan red colobus is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. It has this listing because the populations are very fragmented and there is no movement of individuals between populations. The species is also classified as Endangered because the occurrence of all the populations combined is less than 5,000 km2 and this area is at risk of being decreased due to habitat loss and degradation that occurs outside protected areas.
The Ugandan red colobus is also listed as Endangered due to there being a decline in numbers, principally due to common chimpanzee predation and habitat loss.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Ugandan red colobus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Ugandan red colobus, Wikidata item Q1367324. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
