It is hard to guess what a White-nosed saki weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) on average weights 2.8 kg (6.17 lbs).
The White-nosed saki is from the family Cebidae (genus: Chiropotes). They can live for up to 17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 44 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, White-nosed 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-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) is an endangered species of bearded saki, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the south-central Amazon rainforest in Brazil and possibly a small area east of Bolivia. Both its scientific and common name were caused by the authors working from dead specimens, where the skin on and around the nose fades to whitish. In living individuals, it is actually bright pink (though with fine barely visible white hairs), and the pelage is black. No other species of the genus Chiropotes have a brightly colored nose.
Animals of the same family as a White-nosed saki
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Spix’s night monkey with a weight of 873 grams
- Brumback’s night monkey with a weight of 603 grams
- White-cheeked spider monkey bringing 6.24 kilos (13.76 lbs) to the scale
- Aotus infulatus with a weight of 800 grams
- Brown woolly monkey bringing 6.27 kilos (13.82 lbs) to the scale
- Rio Beni titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Venezuelan red howler bringing 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs) to the scale
- Black bearded saki bringing 2.97 kilos (6.55 lbs) to the scale
- Bolivian red howler bringing 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs) to the scale
- Peruvian spider monkey bringing 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White-nosed saki
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiropotes albinasus:
- Indian hare with a weight of 2.3 kilos (5.07 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur with a weight of 2.39 kilos (5.27 lbs)
- Leopard cat with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Marbled cat with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
- Rock hyrax with a weight of 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Mountain hare with a weight of 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti with a weight of 3.02 kilos (6.66 lbs)
- Granada hare with a weight of 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-nosed saki
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-nosed saki:
- Red lemur with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red acouchi with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Large-spotted civet with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Common brushtail possum with a size of 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- European wildcat with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-nosed saki
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-nosed saki:
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Black-bearded tomb bat
- Common wallaroo
- Moor macaque
- Dusky pademelon
- Brazilian porcupine
- Southeast Asian shrew
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
- Proserpine rock-wallaby
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-nosed saki
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-nosed saki:
- Gray-bellied night monkey with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Mountain goat with an average maximal age of 19.17 years
- Beech marten with an average maximal age of 18.08 years
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with an average maximal age of 19.25 years
- Red forest duiker with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Cougar with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Pond bat with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Arabian oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years