It is hard to guess what a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) on average weights 8.27 kg (18.23 lbs).
The Yellow-tailed woolly monkey is from the family Cebidae (genus: Lagothrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55.1 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Yellow-tailed woolly monkeys 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 yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) is a New World monkey endemic to Peru. It is a rare primate species found only in the Peruvian Andes, in the departments of Amazonas and San Martin, as well as bordering areas of La Libertad, Huánuco, and Loreto. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey was at first classified in the genus Lagothrix along with other woolly monkeys, but due to debatable primary sources, they have been placed in Oreonax. Oreonax has been proposed to be a subgenus of Lagothrix, but others have regarded it as a full genus. A recent extensive study suggests that the yellow-tailed woolly monkey may indeed be in Lagothrix.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Bolivian red howler bringing 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs) to the scale
- Guianan squirrel monkey with a weight of 750 grams
- White-footed saki bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Spix’s night monkey with a weight of 873 grams
- White-nosed saki bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Rio Tapajós saki bringing 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs) to the scale
- Red-handed howler bringing 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs) to the scale
- Ollala brothers’s titi with a weight of 992 grams
- Central American squirrel monkey with a weight of 714 grams
- Kaapori capuchin bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lagothrix flavicauda:
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Canada lynx with a weight of 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Assam macaque with a weight of 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs)
- Large Indian civet with a weight of 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs)
- Hog badger with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-tailed woolly monkey:
- White-nosed coati with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern tamandua with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Common spotted cuscus with a size of 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Long-nosed mongoose with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey: