It is hard to guess what a White-faced saki weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia) on average weights 1.67 kg (3.68 lbs).
The White-faced saki is from the family Cebidae (genus: Pithecia). They can live for up to 20.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.6 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, White-faced sakis 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 white-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia), called the Guianan saki and the golden-faced saki, is a species of the New World saki monkey. They can be found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. This species lives in the understory and lower canopy of the forest, feeding mostly on fruits, nuts, seeds, and insects. Although they are arboreal creatures and are specialists of swinging from tree to tree (brachiation), they are also terrestrial when foraging. White-faced sakis typically live around 14 years in their natural habitat and have been recorded to live up to 36 years in captivity. Sakis are active in the day and sleep highly elevated (15-20m) in trees with many leaves to shelter them from weather and flying predators. [6]A formerly recognized subspecies of this monkey, P. p. chrysocephala, was elevated to full species status as P. chrysocephala in 2014.
Animals of the same family as a White-faced saki
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Aotus infulatus with a weight of 800 grams
- Peruvian spider monkey bringing 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) to the scale
- Kaapori capuchin bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Hoffmanns’s titi bringing 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) to the scale
- Rio Beni titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey bringing 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs) to the scale
- Ashy black titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Southern muriqui bringing 10.57 kilos (23.3 lbs) to the scale
- Brown titi with a weight of 851 grams
- Ollala brothers’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-faced saki
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pithecia pithecia:
- Indian giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs)
- Island fox with a weight of 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs)
- Crowned lemur with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose with a weight of 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat with a weight of 1.42 kilos (3.13 lbs)
- Atlantic titi with a weight of 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs)
- Reclusive ringtail possum with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus with a weight of 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-faced saki
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-faced saki:
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- American mink with a size of 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied lemur with a size of 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern cottontail with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Bengal mongoose with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-faced saki
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-faced saki:
- White rhinoceros
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Scaly-tailed possum
- Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Horse
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
- Western mastiff bat
- Grey seal
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-faced saki
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-faced saki:
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Proboscis monkey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- South American sea lion with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Jentink’s duiker with an average maximal age of 17.5 years
- Senegal bushbaby with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Blackbuck with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Commerson’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 18 years