Red colobus  (Piliocolobus badius)

Range

The red colobus occurs in West Africa, where the subspecies are confined to certain areas, many of which overlap. Miss Waldron’s red colobus (P. b. waldronae) was found in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana but has not been seen alive since 1978 (3). However, recent evidence of a tail, a skin and a photograph suggest that a handful of individuals have remained undetected to this point in the extreme southeast of Ivory Coast (7). The bay colobus (P. b. badius) is found in the western Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone (1). Temminck’s red colobus (P. b. temminckii) is found in Gambia, northern Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and southern Senegal (1) (3).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The red colobus is found in tropical and gallery rainforests in all levels of the canopy (5).

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