It is hard to guess what a Toque macaque weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) on average weights 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs).
The Toque macaque is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Macaca). They can live for up to 35 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 48 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Toque 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 toque macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa (Sinhala: රිළවා), (hence “rillow” in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Animals of the same family as a Toque macaque
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Tana River red colobus bringing 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs) to the scale
- Bonnet macaque bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
- Proboscis monkey bringing 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs) to the scale
- L’Hoest’s monkey bringing 5.31 kilos (11.71 lbs) to the scale
- Golden snub-nosed monkey bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Campbell’s mona monkey bringing 3.63 kilos (8 lbs) to the scale
- Red-tailed monkey bringing 3.54 kilos (7.8 lbs) to the scale
- Wolf’s mona monkey bringing 3.26 kilos (7.19 lbs) to the scale
- Assam macaque bringing 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs) to the scale
- Diana monkey bringing 4.36 kilos (9.61 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Toque macaque
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macaca sinica:
- Antelope jackrabbit with a weight of 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs)
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo with a weight of 4.76 kilos (10.49 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine with a weight of 4.12 kilos (9.08 lbs)
- Kit fox with a weight of 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs)
- European hare with a weight of 3.82 kilos (8.42 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin with a weight of 4.67 kilos (10.3 lbs)
- Red fox with a weight of 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Toque macaque
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Toque macaque:
- Arctic hare with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-nosed saki with a size of 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern common cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black howler with a size of 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Toque macaque
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Toque macaque:
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Hottentot golden mole
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Tufted deer
- Black crested gibbon
- Magdalena rat
- Gray brocket
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Toque macaque
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Toque macaque:
- Bowhead whale with an average maximal age of 40 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Spotted seal with an average maximal age of 35.5 years
- Crested servaline genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Drill (animal) with an average maximal age of 33.33 years
- King colobus with an average maximal age of 30.5 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Sea otter with an average maximal age of 30 years
- African buffalo with an average maximal age of 29.5 years