It is hard to guess what a Grivet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) on average weights 3.86 kg (8.52 lbs).
The Grivet is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Chlorocebus). It is usually born with about 173 grams (0.38 lbs). They can live for up to 31.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Grivets 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 grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops), also known as African green monkey and savannah monkey is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single species, Cercopithecus aethiops. As here defined, the grivet is restricted to Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea. In the southern part of its range, it comes into contact with the closely related vervet monkey (C. pygerythrus) and Bale Mountains vervet (C. djamdjamensis). Hybridization between them is possible, and may present a threat to the vulnerable Bale Mountains vervet. Unlike that species, the grivet is common and rated as Least Concern by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Grivet
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey bringing 3.24 kilos (7.14 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Pig-tailed langur bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary macaque bringing 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs) to the scale
- White-fronted surili bringing 6.12 kilos (13.49 lbs) to the scale
- Allen’s swamp monkey bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Crested mona monkey bringing 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) to the scale
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same weight as a Grivet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chlorocebus aethiops:
- Coquerel’s sifaka with a weight of 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Greater cane rat with a weight of 3.75 kilos (8.27 lbs)
- Kit fox with a weight of 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs)
- Olive colobus with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- White-throated guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Grivet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Grivet:
- Woolly hare with a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Banded palm civet with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Lion-tailed macaque with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern tamandua with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grivet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Grivet:
- Common minke whale
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Greater kudu
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Sangihe tarsier
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Grivet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Grivet:
- Grévy’s zebra with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Diana monkey with an average maximal age of 37.25 years
- Leopard seal with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Spectacled bear with an average maximal age of 36.42 years
- Toque macaque with an average maximal age of 35 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Northern fur seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- European bison with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Guanaco with an average maximal age of 28.25 years