It is hard to guess what a Diademed sifaka weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema) on average weights 6.58 kg (14.5 lbs).
The Diademed sifaka is from the family Indridae (genus: Propithecus). It is usually born with about 134 grams (0.3 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 50.1 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Diademed sifakas 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 diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), or diademed simpona, is an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar. Along with the indri, this species is one of the two largest living lemurs, with an average weight of 6.5 kg and a total adult length of approximately 105 centimetres (41 inches), half of which is its tail. Russell Mittermeier, one of the contemporary authorities on lemurs, describes the diademed sifaka as “one of the most colorful and attractive of all the lemurs”, having a long and silky coat. P. diadema is also known by the Malagasy names simpona, simpony and ankomba joby. The term “diademed sifaka” is also used as a group species designation formerly encompassing four distinct subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Diademed sifaka
We found other animals of the Indridae family:
- Eastern woolly lemur bringing 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) to the scale
- Golden-crowned sifaka bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Indri bringing 8.61 kilos (18.98 lbs) to the scale
- Verreaux’s sifaka bringing 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Diademed sifaka
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Propithecus diadema:
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- American badger with a weight of 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs)
- Bobcat with a weight of 6.38 kilos (14.07 lbs)
- Malayan civet with a weight of 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs)
- Müeller’s gibbon with a weight of 5.92 kilos (13.05 lbs)
- Neotropical otter with a weight of 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a weight of 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs)
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
- Moor macaque with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Diademed sifaka
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Diademed sifaka:
- American hog-nosed skunk with a size of 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Angola colobus with a size of 56.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Mexican cottontail with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Diademed sifaka
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Diademed sifaka: