It is hard to guess what a Preuss’s monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Preuss’s monkey (Cercopithecus preussi) on average weights 5.14 kg (11.32 lbs).
The Preuss’s monkey is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Cercopithecus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.5 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Preuss’s 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 Preuss’s monkey (Allochrocebus preussi), also known as Preuss’s guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous (up to 2500 m) forests of eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon and Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the L’Hoest’s monkey (A. lhoesti).Pruess’s monkey is currently classified as a member of the genus Allochrocebus. It was formerly considered a member of the genus Cercopithecus.The diet of Preuss’s monkey is primarily fruit, leaves and insects, although the species occasionally raids human crops. It is darkish in coloration with a white chin, and adult males have a blue scrotum. Preuss’s monkeys weigh up to 10 kg. Troops consist of one adult male and several females and adolescents, averaging 17 total per troop. Females give birth to a single offspring about once every three years. The young mature at 4 years and live to be an average of 31 years.Preuss’s monkey is an endangered species, due to habitat loss and hunting. It is one of the species that live in the Guinean Forests of the West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot.Preuss’s monkey is known to occur in captivity only at the Centre for Education, Rehabilitation, and Conservation of Primates and Nature (CERCOPAN) in Cross River State, Nigeria.There are two subspecies of Preuss’s monkey:Cameroon Preuss’s monkey, Cercopithecus preussi preussiBioko Preuss’s monkey, Cercopithecus preussi insularis
Animals of the same family as a Preuss’s monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Pig-tailed langur bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Red-eared guenon bringing 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs) to the scale
- Patas monkey bringing 7.99 kilos (17.61 lbs) to the scale
- Olive colobus bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Agile mangabey bringing 7.11 kilos (15.67 lbs) to the scale
- Mona monkey bringing 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) to the scale
- Western red colobus bringing 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs) to the scale
- Black snub-nosed monkey bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Black-shanked douc bringing 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs) to the scale
- Bonnet macaque bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Preuss’s monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus preussi:
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.55 kilos (10.03 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Parma wallaby with a weight of 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs)
- Agile gibbon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Otter civet with a weight of 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs)
- Silvery gibbon with a weight of 5.87 kilos (12.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Preuss’s monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Preuss’s monkey:
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- White-thighed surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Müeller’s gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pennant’s colobus with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gray fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Preuss’s monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Preuss’s monkey: