Angola colobus

The Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis), also called the Angolan black-and-white colobus, is an Old World monkey in the genus Colobus. Like its relatives it has black fur and a black face framed by long white hair, with a white mantle across the shoulders and a long thin tail that always ends in white. The amount of white varies from place to place, and mountain animals have longer and thicker fur than those of the lowlands. Adults measure about 50 to 70 centimetres in head and body length, with a tail near 75 centimetres, and weigh between 9 and 20 kilograms. The species lives in dense lowland and coastal mountain rainforest across much of the Congo Basin, reaching Burundi and southwestern Uganda and also the forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Despite its name it is rare in Angola. It is very sociable, forms groups that can reach several hundred animals, and eats mostly leaves with some fruit and seeds. Six to eight subspecies are recognised.