It is hard to guess what a Black crested gibbon weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black crested gibbon (Hylobates concolor) on average weights 6.43 kg (14.18 lbs).
The Black crested gibbon is from the family Hylobatidae (genus: Hylobates). They can live for up to 44.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.5 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Black crested gibbons 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 gibbon (Nomascus concolor) is an endangered species of gibbon found in China, Laos, and northern Vietnam, with four subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Black crested gibbon
We found other animals of the Hylobatidae family:
- Lar gibbon bringing 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs) to the scale
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon bringing 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs) to the scale
- Pileated gibbon bringing 5.57 kilos (12.28 lbs) to the scale
- Müeller’s gibbon bringing 5.92 kilos (13.05 lbs) to the scale
- Siamang bringing 10.84 kilos (23.9 lbs) to the scale
- Hoolock gibbon bringing 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs) to the scale
- Silvery gibbon bringing 5.87 kilos (12.94 lbs) to the scale
- Agile gibbon bringing 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs) to the scale
- Kloss’s gibbon bringing 5.84 kilos (12.87 lbs) to the scale
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon bringing 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Black crested gibbon
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylobates concolor:
- White-thighed surili with a weight of 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Silvery lutung with a weight of 7.15 kilos (15.76 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with a weight of 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with a weight of 7.6 kilos (16.76 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a weight of 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs)
- Suni with a weight of 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka with a weight of 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black crested gibbon
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black crested gibbon:
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Capped langur with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Small Indian civet with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pileated gibbon with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tonkean macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black crested gibbon
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Black crested gibbon:
- Guatemalan black howler
- Roe deer
- Speke’s gazelle
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat
- Sulawesi rousette
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Eld’s deer
- Japanese serow
- Angolan talapoin
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Black crested gibbon
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Black crested gibbon:
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Spotted seal with an average maximal age of 35.5 years
- Lar gibbon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Asinus with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Common minke whale with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Bowhead whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Harbor seal with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Pygmy hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 43.75 years