How big does a Golden-backed uakari get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Golden-backed uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus) reaches an average size of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 18 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 3.13 kg (6.9 lbs). The Golden-backed uakari (genus: Cacajao) is a member of the family Cebidae.
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 golden-backed uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus) or black-headed uakari, is a New World primate from the family Pitheciidae. It lives in the Amazon Rainforest, and is found in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It has black hair covering its body, except for a reddish abdomen, tail, and upper limbs, and a bald face. It has highly specialised teeth which allow it to eat seeds and fruits with hard shells. The name golden-backed uakari is a neotype proposed by Boubli et al. (2008).
Animals of the same family as a Golden-backed uakari
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Rio Beni titi with 1 babies per litter
- Black bearded saki with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Hoffmanns’s titi with 1 babies per litter
- Atlantic titi with a size of 36.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per litter
- Emilia’s marmoset with a weight of 309 grams
- Monk saki with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Golden-backed uakari
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden-backed uakari:
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Red lemur with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Omilteme cottontail with a size of 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with a size of 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sunda stink badger with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Dice’s cottontail with a size of 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Atlantic titi with a size of 36.2 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Golden-backed uakari
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Golden-backed uakari:
- Natterer’s bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Northern viscacha with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Margay with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Philippine tarsier with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Impala with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Western grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-backed uakari
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cacajao melanocephalus:
- Scrub hare with a weight of 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin with a weight of 2.79 kilos (6.15 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey with a weight of 3.26 kilos (7.19 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a weight of 2.52 kilos (5.56 lbs)
- Black agouti with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)