It is hard to guess what a Golden snub-nosed monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden snub-nosed monkey (Pygathrix roxellana) on average weights 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs).
The Golden snub-nosed monkey is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Pygathrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″). Usually, Golden snub-nosed 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 golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is an Old World monkey in the subfamily Colobinae. It is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous forests of central and Southwest China. They inhabit these mountainous forests of Southwestern China at elevations of 1,500-3,400 m above sea level. The Chinese name is Sichuan golden hair monkey (四川金丝猴). It is also widely referred to as the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey. Of the three species of snub-nosed monkeys in China, the golden snub-nosed monkey is the most widely distributed throughout China.Snow occurs frequently within its range and it can withstand colder average temperatures than any other non-human primates. Its diet varies markedly with the seasons, but it is primarily a herbivore with lichens being its main food source. It is diurnal and largely arboreal, spending some 97% of its time in the canopy. There are three subspecies. Population estimates range from 8,000 to 15,000 and it is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) to the scale
- Bonnet macaque bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese macaque bringing 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs) to the scale
- Mantled guereza bringing 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan talapoin bringing 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow baboon bringing 15.82 kilos (34.88 lbs) to the scale
- King colobus bringing 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Moustached guenon bringing 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pygathrix roxellana:
- Water chevrotain with a weight of 10.83 kilos (23.88 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with a weight of 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs)
- African golden cat with a weight of 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs)
- Common duiker with a weight of 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs)
- Water deer with a weight of 12.73 kilos (28.06 lbs)
- Iberian lynx with a weight of 11.08 kilos (24.43 lbs)
- White-bellied duiker with a weight of 13.1 kilos (28.88 lbs)
- African civet with a weight of 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 11 kilos (24.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden snub-nosed monkey:
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- South American coati with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Moor macaque with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Collared mangabey with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Maned sloth with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Golden snub-nosed monkey: