It is hard to guess what a White-throated guenon weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster) on average weights 3.44 kg (7.59 lbs).
The White-throated guenon is from the family Cercopithecidae (genus: Cercopithecus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.7 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, White-throated guenons 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-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin.The white-throated guenon is usually a frugivore but insects, leaves, and crops are also in its diet. It usually lives in small groups of four to five individual monkeys however, there have been groups of 30 discovered, and in cases, some males wander alone. It is arboreal, living in moist tropical forest and the wettest parts of dry tropical forest, however it can also be found in secondary bush and old farmland.Males weigh from 3.5–4.5 kg and females weigh 2–4 kg. Females give birth to one offspring, which is a factor of decreasing population.The white-throated guenon was once considered extinct due to constant hunting for the fur of its unique red belly and white front legs. Yet, a small group was found near the Niger River in 1988.The white-throated guenon is still considered a vulnerable species due to its decreasing population. It is present within Nigerian forest reserves and sacred groves in Benin but hunting and logging restrictions are difficult to enforce or nonexistent . It is one of the species that live in the Guinean Forests of the West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot.There are two subspecies of white-throated guenon:Red-bellied guenon, Cercopithecus erythrogaster erythrogasterNigerian white-throated guenon, Cercopithecus erythrogaster pococki
Animals of the same family as a White-throated guenon
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Thomas’s langur bringing 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) to the scale
- Sooty mangabey bringing 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs) to the scale
- Raffles’ banded langur bringing 7.02 kilos (15.48 lbs) to the scale
- Ursine colobus bringing 7.7 kilos (16.98 lbs) to the scale
- Pig-tailed langur bringing 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs) to the scale
- Bonnet macaque bringing 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) to the scale
- Chacma baboon bringing 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey bringing 3.24 kilos (7.14 lbs) to the scale
- Dryas monkey bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Northern plains gray langur bringing 12.64 kilos (27.87 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White-throated guenon
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cercopithecus erythrogaster:
- Antelope jackrabbit with a weight of 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a weight of 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs)
- Arctic fox with a weight of 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs)
- Bay cat with a weight of 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose with a weight of 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs)
- Black agouti with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Short-eared rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.02 kilos (8.86 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-throated guenon
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-throated guenon:
- Haussa genet with a size of 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Beech marten with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brown woolly monkey with a size of 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tana River mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Amami rabbit with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Stein’s cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-throated guenon
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-throated guenon: