It is hard to guess what a Indri weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Indri (Indri indri) on average weights 8.61 kg (18.98 lbs).
The Indri is from the family Indridae (genus: Indri). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 73.4 cm (2′ 5″). Usually, Indris 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 indri ( (listen); Indri indri), also called the babakoto, is one of the largest living lemurs, with a head-and-body length of about 64–72 cm (25–28 in) and a weight of between 6 to 9.5 kg (13 to 21 lb). It has a black and white coat and maintains an upright posture when climbing or clinging. It is monogamous and lives in small family groups, moving through the canopy, and is purely herbivorous, feeding mainly on leaves but also seeds, fruits, and flowers. The groups are quite vocal, communicating with other groups by singing, roaring and other vocalisations.It is a diurnal tree-dweller related to the sifakas and, like all lemurs, it is native to Madagascar. It is revered by the Malagasy people and plays an important part in their myths and legends with various stories in existence accounting for its origin. The main threats faced by the indri are habitat destruction and fragmentation due to slash and burn agriculture, fuelwood gathering, and logging. It is also hunted despite taboos against this. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as “critically endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a Indri
We found other animals of the Indridae family:
- Golden-crowned sifaka bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern woolly lemur bringing 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) to the scale
- Verreaux’s sifaka bringing 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs) to the scale
- Diademed sifaka bringing 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Indri
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Indri indri:
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- Jungle cat with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.6 kilos (21.16 lbs)
- North American river otter with a weight of 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs)
- Fishing cat with a weight of 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Indri
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Indri:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black dorcopsis with a size of 59.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Margay with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mandrill with a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Otter civet with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Indri
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Indri: