It is hard to guess what a Wedge-capped capuchin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wedge-capped capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) on average weights 2.79 kg (6.16 lbs).
The Wedge-capped capuchin is from the family Cebidae (genus: Cebus). They can live for up to 41 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40.4 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Wedge-capped capuchins have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The wedge-capped capuchin or weeper capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) is a capuchin monkey from South America. It is found in northern Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela and possibly northern Colombia. The genus Cebus is divided into several different species. However, taxonomists argue over the specific divisions within the genus, which are uncertain and controversial. Cebus olivaceus is known to dwell in tall, primary forest and travel over long distances during the day.These primates are medium-sized monkeys with distinctive “wedge cap” markings on their head and slightly longer limbs than other capuchins for jumping through the forest canopy. Similar to other capuchin monkeys, the diet of wedge-capped capuchin primarily consists of fruits, invertebrates, other plant parts, and on rare occasions small vertebrates. They have also been known to rub millipedes against their fur, especially in the rainy seasons, as a potential means of mosquito repellent. Although this species is classified as an animal of least concern by IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, it falls prey to many predators in South America ranging from vultures to jaguars.Cebus olivaceus is a polygamous species that lives in groups anywhere from 5-30 individuals, with a female biased sex ratios. The group is organized according to a pre-determined hierarchal system of dominance for both males and females. Although biological lineage is less of a factor of dominance for males than it is for females, due to male migration between groups. Wedge-capped capuchin partake in several behavioral mechanisms to assert and maintain dominance within the group including: infanticide, when an infant is deliberately killed; grooming, used to facilitate social rapport; and alloparenting, which is when members of the group care for offspring that are not their own.
Animals of the same family as a Wedge-capped capuchin
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a weight of 888 grams
- Rio Beni titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Colombian white-faced capuchin bringing 3.01 kilos (6.64 lbs) to the scale
- Three-striped night monkey with a weight of 912 grams
- Emilia’s marmoset with a weight of 309 grams
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin bringing 2.52 kilos (5.56 lbs) to the scale
- Hoffmanns’s titi bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
- Hershkovitz’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Ollala brothers’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Brown woolly monkey bringing 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Wedge-capped capuchin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cebus olivaceus:
- Red-eared guenon with a weight of 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs)
- Burmese hare with a weight of 2.27 kilos (5 lbs)
- Crested agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- Black lemur with a weight of 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs)
- Jackson’s mongoose with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Hoary bamboo rat with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Equatorial saki with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Central American agouti with a weight of 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs)
- Mountain hare with a weight of 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Wedge-capped capuchin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wedge-capped capuchin:
- Central African oyan with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Selous’s mongoose with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Liberian mongoose with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cacomistle with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Pale fox with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malayan weasel with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wedge-capped capuchin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Wedge-capped capuchin:
- Red goral
- Homo sapiens
- White-throated guenon
- Pileated gibbon
- Silky anteater
- West Caucasian tur
- Rhim gazelle
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Collared peccary
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Wedge-capped capuchin
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Wedge-capped capuchin:
- Crested servaline genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Beluga whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Crabeater seal with an average maximal age of 39 years
- Indian rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 49 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Spotted hyena with an average maximal age of 41.08 years
- Northern fur seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Northern bottlenose whale with an average maximal age of 37 years
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Diana monkey with an average maximal age of 37.25 years