It is hard to guess what a Lesser spot-nosed monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista) on average weights 3.24 kg (7.14 lbs).
The Lesser spot-nosed monkey is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Cercopithecus). They can live for up to 19 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41 cm (1′ 5″). Usually, Lesser spot-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 lesser spot-nosed monkey, lesser spot-nosed guenon, lesser white-nosed guenon, or lesser white-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, Guinea-Bissau, and possibly Senegal.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Celebes crested macaque bringing 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs) to the scale
- Olive baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan talapoin bringing 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) to the scale
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
- Gelada bringing 15.98 kilos (35.23 lbs) to the scale
- Proboscis monkey bringing 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs) to the scale
- Moor macaque bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Grivet bringing 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan macaque bringing 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) to the scale
- Javan surili bringing 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus petaurista:
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin with a weight of 2.79 kilos (6.15 lbs)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 3.38 kilos (7.45 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 3.37 kilos (7.43 lbs)
- Giant forest genet with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin with a weight of 2.76 kilos (6.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser spot-nosed monkey:
- European mink with a size of 36.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Nasuella olivacea with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Vancouver Island marmot with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Stein’s cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-bellied spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Steppe polecat with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red lemur with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brown lemur with a size of 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey:
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Ruwenzori otter shrew
- West Indian manatee
- Indian muntjac
- Maned rat
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Dryas monkey
- Montane fish-eating rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lesser spot-nosed monkey:
- Barbary sheep with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Giant eland with an average maximal age of 16.17 years
- White-nosed saki with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Short-eared possum with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Common pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 16.67 years
- Blackbuck with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Mule deer with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Goitered gazelle with an average maximal age of 20 years