It is hard to guess what a Yellow-tailed woolly monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) on average weights 8.23 kg (18.14 lbs).
The Yellow-tailed woolly monkey is from the family Atelidae (genus: Oreonax). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55 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 Atelidae family:
- Brown howler bringing 5.19 kilos (11.44 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 Oreonax flavicauda:
- Bolivian red howler with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Gee’s golden langur with a weight of 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.98 kilos (19.8 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.31 kilos (18.32 lbs)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a weight of 7.02 kilos (15.48 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a weight of 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 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:
- Red-tailed monkey with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bonnet macaque with a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Egyptian mongoose with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 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: