It is hard to guess what a Blue monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) on average weights 5.04 kg (11.11 lbs).
The Blue monkey is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Cercopithecus). It is usually born with about 402 grams (0.89 lbs). They can live for up to 27.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.5 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Blue monkeys 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 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:
- Assam macaque bringing 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs) to the scale
- Collared mangabey bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Hamadryas baboon bringing 14.97 kilos (33 lbs) to the scale
- Preuss’s red colobus bringing 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs) to the scale
- Sclater’s guenon bringing 3.07 kilos (6.77 lbs) to the scale
- King colobus bringing 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs) to the scale
- Black-crested Sumatran langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Pig-tailed langur bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Proboscis monkey bringing 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs) to the scale
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:
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- White-striped dorcopsis with a weight of 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a weight of 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs)
- Silvery gibbon with a weight of 5.87 kilos (12.94 lbs)
- Suni with a weight of 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs)
- Southern tamandua with a weight of 4.73 kilos (10.43 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
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:
- Malayan porcupine with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Small Indian civet with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Giant forest genet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Lion-tailed macaque with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Antelope jackrabbit with a size of 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground pangolin with a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
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:
- Dormer’s bat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Indian hare
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Tailed tailless bat
- Papuan bandicoot
- Dibatag
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Maroon leaf monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Blue monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Blue monkey:
- Subantarctic fur seal with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Red kangaroo with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Steller sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Aardwolf with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Sika deer with an average maximal age of 25.42 years
- Malayan tapir with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Purple-faced langur with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Guanaco with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Black lemur with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 31 years