It is hard to guess what a Moor macaque weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moor macaque (Macaca maura) on average weights 7.29 kg (16.07 lbs).
The Moor macaque is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Macaca). It is usually born with about 389 grams (0.86 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 66 cm (2′ 2″). Usually, Moor macaques 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 moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque with brown/black body fur with a pale rump patch and pink bare skin on the rump. It is about 50–58.5 cm long, and eats figs, bamboo seeds, buds, sprouts, invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforests. It is sometimes called “dog-ape” because of its dog-like muzzle, although it is no more closely related to apes than any other Old World monkey is. It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.The moor macaque is threatened mostly due to habitat loss from an expanding human population and deforestation to increase agricultural land area. The population is estimated to have decreased from 56,000 to under 10,000 from 1983 to 1994.In 1992, Supriatna et al. (1992) conducted an extensive survey and found only 3,000–5,000 individuals (2,500 mature) of the species. The survey estimated densities to be 25–50 individuals/km2 (18.7SD). Because several Sulawesi macaque species are endangered, information on ecology and behaviour is essential and conservation management plans are being conducted.
Animals of the same family as a Moor macaque
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Purple-faced langur bringing 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs) to the scale
- Greater spot-nosed monkey bringing 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs) to the scale
- Black-crested Sumatran langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary macaque bringing 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs) to the scale
- Hose’s langur bringing 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs) to the scale
- Preuss’s monkey bringing 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs) to the scale
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Olive baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Moor macaque
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macaca maura:
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)
- White-bellied spider monkey with a weight of 6.71 kilos (14.79 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a weight of 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka with a weight of 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs)
- Olympic marmot with a weight of 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs)
- Black crested mangabey with a weight of 6.51 kilos (14.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Moor macaque
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Moor macaque:
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rhesus macaque with a size of 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Leopard cat with a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Mantled guereza with a size of 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Moor macaque
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Moor macaque: