It is hard to guess what a Gee’s golden langur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) on average weights 8.36 kg (18.43 lbs).
The Gee’s golden langur is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Trachypithecus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.5 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Gee’s golden langurs 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.
Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), also known as simply the golden langur, is an Old World monkey found in a small region of western Assam, India and in the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan. It is one of the most endangered primate species of India. Long considered sacred by many Himalayan people, the golden langur was first brought to the attention of the western world by the naturalist E. P. Gee in the 1950s. In a part of Bhutan, it has hybridised with the capped langur T. pileatus.
Animals of the same family as a Gee’s golden langur
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Greater spot-nosed monkey bringing 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs) to the scale
- Pygathrix bieti bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey bringing 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) to the scale
- Black crested mangabey bringing 6.51 kilos (14.35 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan macaque bringing 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) to the scale
- Collared mangabey bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Booted macaque bringing 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) to the scale
- Mona monkey bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Gee’s golden langur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trachypithecus geei:
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs)
- François’ langur with a weight of 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs)
- Fossa (animal) with a weight of 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Short-eared dog with a weight of 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs)
- Tenkile with a weight of 9.98 kilos (22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gee’s golden langur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gee’s golden langur:
- Tayra with a size of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Cape fox with a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Alaskan hare with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Giant bandicoot with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gee’s golden langur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gee’s golden langur: