It is hard to guess what a Silvery lutung weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus) on average weights 7.15 kg (15.77 lbs).
The Silvery lutung is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Trachypithecus). They can live for up to 31.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.8 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Silvery lutungs 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 silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus), also known as the silvered leaf monkey or the silvery langur, is an Old World monkey. It is arboreal, living in coastal, mangrove, and riverine forests in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.It is the type of its species group.
Animals of the same family as a Silvery lutung
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Pygathrix bieti bringing 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) to the scale
- Stump-tailed macaque bringing 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Drill (animal) bringing 14.23 kilos (31.37 lbs) to the scale
- Moor macaque bringing 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) to the scale
- Dryas monkey bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Rhesus macaque bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur bringing 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) to the scale
- Mandrill bringing 16.74 kilos (36.91 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Silvery lutung
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trachypithecus cristatus:
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Jungle cat with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Neotropical otter with a weight of 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- South American gray fox with a weight of 6.34 kilos (13.98 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Silvery lutung
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Silvery lutung:
- Muskrat with a size of 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tome’s spiny rat with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern woodrat with a size of 21.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Moluccan flying fox with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Silvery lutung
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Silvery lutung:
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Moose
- Short-beaked echidna
- Northern olingo
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
- Birdlike noctule
- Dromedary
- Caspian seal
- Greater nectar bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Silvery lutung
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Silvery lutung:
- Red deer with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- Pileated gibbon with an average maximal age of 36 years
- European wildcat with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Drill (animal) with an average maximal age of 33.33 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Bald uakari with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Addax with an average maximal age of 25.67 years
- Brown long-eared bat with an average maximal age of 30 years