It is hard to guess what a Black-crested Sumatran langur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) on average weights 6.45 kg (14.22 lbs).
The Black-crested Sumatran langur is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Presbytis). They can live for up to 16 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 50.4 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Black-crested Sumatran langurs 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 black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to Sumatra in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.The black Sumatran langur, black-and-white langur and mitered langur were formerly considered a subspecies of the P. melalophos.
Animals of the same family as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Stump-tailed macaque bringing 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River mangabey bringing 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs) to the scale
- Maroon leaf monkey bringing 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan talapoin bringing 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) to the scale
- Toque macaque bringing 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs) to the scale
- Pagai Island macaque bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- White-thighed surili bringing 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs) to the scale
- Thomas’s langur bringing 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine colobus bringing 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs) to the scale
- Chacma baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Presbytis melalophos:
- Koala with a weight of 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs)
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat with a weight of 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs)
- Suni with a weight of 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with a weight of 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis with a weight of 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with a weight of 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs)
- Silvery lutung with a weight of 7.15 kilos (15.76 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-crested Sumatran langur:
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Flat-headed cat with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Neotropical otter with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bahamian raccoon with a size of 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Black-crested Sumatran langur:
- Large slit-faced bat
- Dusky elephant shrew
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Tamaraw
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Hammer-headed bat
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Barbary macaque
- Voalavoanala
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Black-crested Sumatran langur:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 17.08 years
- African palm civet with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Brazilian porcupine with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Red goral with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black bearded saki with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Roe deer with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years