How big does a Diana monkey get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) reaches an average size of 47 cm (1′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 37.25 years, they grow from 468 grams (1.03 lbs) to 4.36 kg (9.62 lbs). A Diana monkey has 1 babies at once. The Diana 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 Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey. The term “old-world monkey” refers to the family of monkeys known as Cercopithecoidea and the Diana monkey is only 1 species out of the 148 that are a part of this family.
Animals of the same family as a Diana monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- François’ langur with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black snub-nosed monkey with a size of 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Black crested mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per litter
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- White-thighed surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same size as a Diana monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Diana monkey:
- American marten with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Kinkajou with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Brown woolly monkey with a size of 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Diademed sifaka with a size of 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-eared guenon with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Diana monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Diana monkey:
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Kob
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Greater mouse-deer
- Proboscis monkey
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Markhor
- Spectral bat
- Eastern forest bat
- Rio Beni titi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Diana monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Diana monkey:
- Beluga whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- California sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Siamang with an average maximal age of 38 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Cat with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Black lemur with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Bearded seal with an average maximal age of 31.42 years
- Pagai Island macaque with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Pygmy hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 43.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Diana monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus diana:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- Red ruffed lemur with a weight of 3.87 kilos (8.53 lbs)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Crested mona monkey with a weight of 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Parma wallaby with a weight of 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)