It is hard to guess what a Mandrill weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) on average weights 16.74 kg (36.91 lbs).
The Mandrill is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Mandrillus). It is usually born with about 613 grams (1.35 lbs). They can live for up to 46.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 75.8 cm (2′ 6″). Usually, Mandrills 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 mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a primate of the Old World monkey (Cercopithecidae) family. It is one of two species assigned to the genus Mandrillus, along with the drill. Both the mandrill and the drill were once classified as baboons in the genus Papio, but they now have their own genus, Mandrillus. Although they look superficially like baboons, they are more closely related to Cercocebus mangabeys. Mandrills are found in southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo. Mandrills mostly live in tropical rainforest and in very large groups. Mandrills have an omnivorous diet consisting mostly of fruits and insects. Their mating season peaks in July to September, with a corresponding birth peak in December to April.Mandrills are the world’s largest monkeys. The mandrill is classified as vulnerable by IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Mandrill
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Blue monkey bringing 5.04 kilos (11.11 lbs) to the scale
- White-thighed surili bringing 5.9 kilos (13.01 lbs) to the scale
- Javan surili bringing 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey bringing 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) to the scale
- Mantled guereza bringing 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs) to the scale
- Allen’s swamp monkey bringing 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) to the scale
- Preuss’s monkey bringing 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs) to the scale
- Olive colobus bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mandrill
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mandrillus sphinx:
- Cape porcupine with a weight of 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs)
- Hamadryas baboon with a weight of 14.97 kilos (33 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with a weight of 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle with a weight of 20 kilos (44.09 lbs)
- Swamp wallaby with a weight of 15 kilos (33.07 lbs)
- Black musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf with a weight of 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs)
- Chinkara with a weight of 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs)
- Oribi with a weight of 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs)
- North American beaver with a weight of 18.11 kilos (39.93 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mandrill
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mandrill:
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Chinese mountain cat with a size of 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Steenbok with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Fishing cat with a size of 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Red forest duiker with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Ocelot with a size of 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mandrill
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mandrill:
- Ringed seal
- European bison
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Southern forest bat
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew
- Diademed sifaka
- Antarctic fur seal
- Rufous rat-kangaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mandrill
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mandrill:
- White rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Indian rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 49 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Chacma baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Polar bear with an average maximal age of 38.17 years
- Burchell’s zebra with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Walrus with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Striped dolphin with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 54.5 years