It is hard to guess what a Diana monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) on average weights 4.36 kg (9.62 lbs).
The Diana monkey is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Cercopithecus). It is usually born with about 468 grams (1.03 lbs). They can live for up to 37.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Diana 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 Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey. The term “old-world monkey” refers to the family of monkeys known as Cercopithecoidea and the Diana monkey is only 1 species out of the 148 that are a part of this family.
Animals of the same family as a Diana monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Formosan rock macaque bringing 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs) to the scale
- Preuss’s red colobus bringing 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese macaque bringing 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs) to the scale
- Crested mona monkey bringing 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine colobus bringing 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs) to the scale
- Dryas monkey bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Black snub-nosed monkey bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Gee’s golden langur bringing 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) to the scale
- Mandrill bringing 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs) to the scale
- Bonnet macaque bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Diana monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus diana:
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Otter civet with a weight of 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs)
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot with a weight of 4.35 kilos (9.59 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.63 kilos (10.21 lbs)
- Olive colobus with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Diana monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Diana monkey:
- Flat-headed cat with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pagai Island macaque with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Indian grey mongoose with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-sided jackrabbit with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel with a size of 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Grivet with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Philippine flying lemur with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Monk saki with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Diana monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Diana monkey:
- Black-bearded tomb bat
- Green bush squirrel
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Pennant’s colobus
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Eared hutia
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- South Asian river dolphin
- Western mastiff bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Diana monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Diana monkey:
- Toque macaque with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Hooded seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Grivet with an average maximal age of 31.58 years
- Northern giraffe with an average maximal age of 36.25 years
- Red-faced spider monkey with an average maximal age of 37.75 years
- Red kangaroo with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
- Little brown bat with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Bonnet macaque with an average maximal age of 30 years