It is hard to guess what a Mentawai langur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) on average weights 6.45 kg (14.23 lbs).
The Mentawai langur is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Presbytis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Mentawai langurs 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 Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The Siberut langur (P. siberu) was formerly considered a subspecies of the Mentawai langur..
Animals of the same family as a Mentawai langur
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Lion-tailed macaque bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Zanzibar red colobus bringing 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) to the scale
- Black snub-nosed monkey bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Thomas’s langur bringing 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri langur bringing 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Grey-cheeked mangabey bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Pagai Island macaque bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mentawai langur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Presbytis potenziani:
- Sun-tailed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Olympic marmot with a weight of 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs)
- Malayan civet with a weight of 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka with a weight of 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs)
- Kloss’s gibbon with a weight of 5.84 kilos (12.87 lbs)
- Vancouver Island marmot with a weight of 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a weight of 5.31 kilos (11.71 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mentawai langur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mentawai langur:
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-shanked douc with a size of 60.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hispid hare with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a size of 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Nilgiri marten with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mentawai langur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mentawai langur: