It is hard to guess what a Guatemalan black howler weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guatemalan black howler (Alouatta pigra) on average weights 7.19 kg (15.84 lbs).
The Guatemalan black howler is from the family Cebidae (genus: Alouatta). It is usually born with about 480 grams (1.06 lbs). They can live for up to 20 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56.7 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Guatemalan black howlers 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 Guatemalan black howler, or Yucatan black howler, (Alouatta pigra) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America. It is found in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, in and near the Yucatan Peninsula. It lives in evergreen, semideciduous and lowland rain forests. It is also known as the baboon in Belize, although it is not closely related to the baboons in Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Guatemalan black howler
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Central American squirrel monkey with a weight of 714 grams
- White-eared titi with a weight of 898 grams
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset with 2 babies per litter
- White-bellied spider monkey bringing 6.71 kilos (14.79 lbs) to the scale
- Ollala brothers’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Rio Mayo titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Brown howler bringing 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs) to the scale
- Rio Tapajós saki bringing 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs) to the scale
- Bolivian red howler bringing 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs) to the scale
- Brown woolly monkey bringing 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Guatemalan black howler
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Alouatta pigra:
- Culpeo with a weight of 8.62 kilos (19 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Jungle cat with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Black crested mangabey with a weight of 6.51 kilos (14.35 lbs)
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.18 kilos (18.03 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with a weight of 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Guatemalan black howler
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Guatemalan black howler:
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Flat-headed cat with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-nosed coati with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Guatemalan black howler
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Guatemalan black howler:
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Attwater’s pocket gopher
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Greater mouse-deer
- Sea otter
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Guatemalan black howler
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Guatemalan black howler:
- Kirk’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Platypus with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Common wallaroo with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Coyote with an average maximal age of 21.83 years
- Swift fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Big brown bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Jentink’s duiker with an average maximal age of 17.5 years
- East Caucasian tur with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Black wildebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years