It is hard to guess what a Venezuelan red howler weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) on average weights 6.41 kg (14.13 lbs).
The Venezuelan red howler is from the family Cebidae (genus: Alouatta). It is usually born with about 294 grams (0.65 lbs). They can live for up to 25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56.1 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Venezuelan red howlers 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 Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. The population in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia was split off as a separate species, the Bolivian red howler, in 1986, and more recently, splitting off the population in northeastern South America and Trinidad as the Guyanan red howler has occurred. All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys).
Animals of the same family as a Venezuelan red howler
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Atlantic titi bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- Red-handed howler bringing 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs) to the scale
- White-footed saki bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey with a weight of 714 grams
- Coppery titi bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Brumback’s night monkey with a weight of 603 grams
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey bringing 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs) to the scale
- Black-headed spider monkey bringing 9.07 kilos (20 lbs) to the scale
- Ollala brothers’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Guianan squirrel monkey with a weight of 750 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Venezuelan red howler
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Alouatta seniculus:
- Crab-eating raccoon with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
- Moor macaque with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Malayan civet with a weight of 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Venezuelan red howler
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Venezuelan red howler:
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Red lemur with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Golden palm civet with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Common brown lemur with a size of 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Southern tamandua with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Malayan porcupine with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Asian small-clawed otter with a size of 51.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- American badger with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-shanked douc with a size of 60.9 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Venezuelan red howler
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Venezuelan red howler:
- Arabian oryx
- Mahogany glider
- Hartebeest
- Tibetan macaque
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Mount Kenya mole shrew
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Spotted bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Venezuelan red howler
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Venezuelan red howler:
- Cotton-top tamarin with an average maximal age of 23.08 years
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- Chital with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- African civet with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Asian palm civet with an average maximal age of 22.42 years
- Western barbastelle with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with an average maximal age of 21.75 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Galápagos fur seal with an average maximal age of 22 years