It is hard to guess what a Raffles’ banded langur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Raffles’ banded langur (Presbytis femoralis) on average weights 7.02 kg (15.47 lbs).
The Raffles’ banded langur is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Presbytis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51.4 cm (1′ 9″).
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 Raffles’ banded langur (Presbytis femoralis), also known as the banded leaf monkey or banded surili, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to Singapore and southern Peninsular Malaysia. The species underwent taxonomic revisions in 2019 and 2020, in which two former subspecies were elevated to separate species. As a result, the Raffles’ banded langur likely meets the criteria for being listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. It is mainly threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Raffles’ banded langur
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Moor macaque bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Capped langur bringing 11.21 kilos (24.71 lbs) to the scale
- Dryas monkey bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Toque macaque bringing 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs) to the scale
- Purple-faced langur bringing 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs) to the scale
- Red-shanked douc bringing 9.48 kilos (20.9 lbs) to the scale
- Pennant’s colobus bringing 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs) to the scale
- Crab-eating macaque bringing 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) to the scale
- Patas monkey bringing 7.99 kilos (17.61 lbs) to the scale
- Dusky leaf monkey bringing 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Raffles’ banded langur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Presbytis femoralis:
- Peruvian spider monkey with a weight of 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.43 kilos (14.18 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a weight of 7.32 kilos (16.14 lbs)
- Red-handed howler with a weight of 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs)
- Ursine colobus with a weight of 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Raffles’ banded langur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Raffles’ banded langur:
- Guatemalan black howler with a size of 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Large-spotted civet with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hispid hare with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black capuchin with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Granada hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)