Colobus angolensis
Silhouette: Yan Wong from drawing in The Century Dictionary (1911) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis), Angolan black-and-white colobus, or Angolan colobus is a primate species of Old World monkey belonging to the genus Colobus. The Angola colobus has six to eight recognized subspecies:
Like all black-and-white colobi, the Angola colobus has black fur and a black face, surrounded by long, white locks of hair. It also has a mantle of white hair on the shoulders. The long, thin tail can be either black or white, but the tip is always white. There is a significant regional variation in the total amount of white on the body and the length of the fur. Animals that live in the mountains have longer, thicker fur than animals from the lowlands to protect them against the cold.
The Angola colobus has a head-body length of 50 to 70 cm (20 to 28 in), with the males usually being larger than females. The tail is about 75 cm (30 in) long, and the body weight varies between 9 and 20 kg (20 and 44 lb).
The Angola colobus occurs in dense rainforests, both in the lowlands and coastal mountains. It lives in most of the Congo Basin, to the south and northeast of the Congo River, as far... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda |
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| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disney's Animal Kingdom | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | San Diego Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Zoo Pilsen | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 4 | Abilene Zoological Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Columbus Zoo and Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Poznań Nowe Zoo | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 7 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Brookfield Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 11 | Wrocław Zoological Garden | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 12 | ZooTampa | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 13 | San Antonio Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 14 | Zoologischer Garten Magdeburg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 15 | Zoo Atlanta | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 16 | Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 17 | Magnetic Hill Zoo | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 18 | Zoo Sibiu | 🇷🇴 Romania | |
| 19 | The Abilene Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 20 | Greenville Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 21 | Africarium | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 22 | terrarium ogrodu zoologicznego we Wrocławiu | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report an Angola Colobus sighting in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 11 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 80% of wildlife watchers report an Angola Colobus in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January and June, the lowest months. That is one of Nyungwe National Park's wettest months, with about 550 mm of rain against 30 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Angola Colobus sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Nyungwe National Park, in our data
Nyungwe National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Angola Colobus sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Cercopithecidae
The closest relatives of the Angola Colobus that you can see in Nyungwe National Park (family Cercopithecidae, Old World Monkeys) are L'Hoest's Guenon (about 80%), Blue Monkey (about 70%) and Olive Baboon (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Angola Colobus is recorded against all the mammals logged in Nyungwe National Park (24 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
