Ugandan red colobus

The Ugandan red colobus, Piliocolobus tephrosceles, also called the ashy red colobus, is an endangered red colobus monkey recognised as a distinct species since 2001, though many still treat it as a subspecies of Piliocolobus rufomitratus. It lives in five separate forest areas across Uganda and Tanzania: west Tanzania at the edge of Lake Victoria, the Gombe and Mahale Mountains on Lake Tanganyika, the Ufipa Plateau, and Kibale National Park in west Uganda, whose population of about 17,000 is the largest. It has a rust-red cap, a dark grey to black face and a very long tail used for balance, and the average male weighs about 10.5 kg and the female about 7 kg. A folivore that prefers young leaves, it lives in multi-male groups that average about 40 animals, and the common chimpanzee and the crowned eagle are its main predators.