The king colobus is a West African forest monkey with a black body and conspicuous white chest, whiskers, and tail.
Its body is black, while its chest and whiskers are white. The whole tail is white and has no tuft.
Researchers modeled current and future habitat for the King Colobus in West Africa using forest maps and climate conditions. Their area of interest covered about 1.62 million square kilometres, including roughly 370,000 square kilometres of forest. The model classified 43.3% of that forest as suitable for this species.
An estimated 82.9% of forest considered suitable for the King Colobus lay outside protected areas. Under the study’s low-emissions scenario, modeled suitable habitat declined by 71.8% by 2050. The authors mapped forest suitability by combining climate conditions with remaining forest cover across the study region.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The model placed 82.9% of suitable forest outside protected areas and projected a 71.8% decline in suitable habitat by 2050 under its low-emissions scenario.