How big does a Blue monkey get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) reaches an average size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 27.08 years, they grow from 402 grams (0.89 lbs) to 5.04 kg (11.11 lbs). A Blue monkey has 1 babies at once. The Blue monkey (genus: Cercopithecus) is a member of the family Cercopithecidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The blue monkey or diademed monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia. It sometimes includes Sykes’, silver, and golden monkeys as subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Blue monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- White-fronted surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Moustached guenon with a size of 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey with a size of 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Angola colobus with a size of 56.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mentawai langur with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pig-tailed langur with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Blue monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Blue monkey:
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground pangolin with a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Venezuelan red howler with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Margay with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- American badger with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Western long-beaked echidna with a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Blue monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Blue monkey:
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- African savanna hare
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Ground cuscus
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Maroon leaf monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Blue monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Blue monkey:
- De Brazza’s monkey with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- Bharal with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Black-headed spider monkey with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Sooty mangabey with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- Malayan tapir with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Wolf with an average maximal age of 29.5 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 23.83 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Angolan talapoin with an average maximal age of 30.83 years
- Eurasian lynx with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Blue monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus mitis:
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a weight of 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs)
- Lar gibbon with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
- Alpine marmot with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a weight of 5.31 kilos (11.71 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo with a weight of 4.76 kilos (10.49 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)