It is hard to guess what a Assam macaque weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Assam macaque (Macaca assamensis) on average weights 8.55 kg (18.86 lbs).
The Assam macaque is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Macaca). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.5 cm (2′ 0″).
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 Assam macaque or Assamese macaque (Macaca assamensis) is a macaque of the Old World monkey family native to South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, the species has been listed as “near threatened” by the IUCN, as it is experiencing significant declines due to hunting, habitat degradation, and fragmentation.
Animals of the same family as a Assam macaque
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- François’ langur bringing 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs) to the scale
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per litter
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkean macaque bringing 10.07 kilos (22.2 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese macaque bringing 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs) to the scale
- Mentawai langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Maroon leaf monkey bringing 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs) to the scale
- Mandrill bringing 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs) to the scale
- Olive baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
- White-thighed surili bringing 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Assam macaque
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macaca assamensis:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs)
- Ursine colobus with a weight of 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with a weight of 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Pygmy hog with a weight of 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.47 kilos (18.67 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Assam macaque
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Assam macaque:
- Stump-tailed macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Corsac fox with a size of 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)