Colobus monkeys have vestigial or absent thumbs, and have complex stomachs to help them adapt to a vegetarian diet.

Subspecies
None.

Life span
Unknown.

Statistics
Head and body length: Female: 61-66cm, Male: 61-64cm. Tail length: 75-81cm. Weight: Female: 8.3 Male: 9.9kg

Physical description
These monkeys are mostly black, with the exception of a bushy white facial fringe, a white strip on the thigh and a white tail.

Distribution
They range across the Ivory coast to Nigeria.

Habitat
They inhabit lowland moist, deciduous forest and savannah.

Diet
Geoffroy's black and white colobus feed on leaves, fruit and seeds.

Behaviour
They live in multi-male, multi-female groups, with an average of 16 members. They are diurnal and arboreal, although they travel across the ground between forest patches in savannah habitats.

Reproduction
Little is known about Geoffroy's black and white colobus' reproductive biology.

Conservation status
This species is not listed by the 2000 IUCN Red List.