It is hard to guess what a Hamadryas baboon weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) on average weights 14.97 kg (33.01 lbs).
The Hamadryas baboon is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Papio). It is usually born with about 878 grams (1.94 lbs). They can live for up to 40 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.5 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Hamadryas baboons 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 hamadryas baboon (; Papio hamadryas) is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion, hence its alternative name of ‘sacred baboon’.
Animals of the same family as a Hamadryas baboon
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Capped langur bringing 11.21 kilos (24.71 lbs) to the scale
- Mantled guereza bringing 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri langur bringing 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) to the scale
- Lion-tailed macaque bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan macaque bringing 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese macaque bringing 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs) to the scale
- Maroon leaf monkey bringing 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Hamadryas baboon
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Papio hamadryas:
- Dhole with a weight of 15.85 kilos (34.94 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf with a weight of 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Gelada with a weight of 15.98 kilos (35.23 lbs)
- African civet with a weight of 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs)
- Dwarf brocket with a weight of 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with a weight of 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer with a weight of 12.39 kilos (27.32 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker with a weight of 12.06 kilos (26.59 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hamadryas baboon
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hamadryas baboon:
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Dusky pademelon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a size of 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Pygmy hog with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Moor macaque with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Brown dorcopsis with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pampas cat with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hamadryas baboon
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hamadryas baboon:
- Père David’s deer
- Banana pipistrelle
- Charming thicket rat
- Pallid bat
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Natterer’s bat
- Blue duiker
- Southern viscacha
- Black-eared flying fox
- Dama gazelle
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hamadryas baboon
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hamadryas baboon:
- Bowhead whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years
- Sloth bear with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Northern fur seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Chacma baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Spotted hyena with an average maximal age of 41.08 years
- Japanese macaque with an average maximal age of 33 years
- Lar gibbon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Dromedary with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Anoa with an average maximal age of 36 years