It is hard to guess what a Milne-Edwards’s sifaka weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Milne-Edwards’s sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi) on average weights 6.57 kg (14.49 lbs).
The Milne-Edwards’s sifaka is from the family Indriidae (genus: Propithecus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37 cm (1′ 3″).
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.
Milne-Edwards’s sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi), or Milne-Edwards’s simpona, is a large arboreal, diurnal lemur endemic to the eastern coastal rainforest of Madagascar. Milne-Edwards’s sifaka is characterized by a black body with a light-colored “saddle” on the lower part of its back. It is closely related to the diademed sifaka, and was until recently considered a subspecies of it. Like all sifakas, it is a primate in the family Indriidae.
Animals of the same family as a Milne-Edwards’s sifaka
We found other animals of the Indriidae family:
- Western woolly lemur with a weight of 828 grams
- Coquerel’s sifaka bringing 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Milne-Edwards’s sifaka
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Propithecus edwardsi:
- Lion-tailed macaque with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with a weight of 7.69 kilos (16.95 lbs)
- White-striped dorcopsis with a weight of 5.5 kilos (12.13 lbs)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a weight of 5.32 kilos (11.73 lbs)
- Silvery lutung with a weight of 7.15 kilos (15.76 lbs)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a weight of 6.24 kilos (13.76 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox with a weight of 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)