What is the maximal age a Black-crested Sumatran langur reaches?
An adult Black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) usually gets as old as 16 years.
When born, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Presbytis), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 50.4 cm (1′ 8″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to Sumatra in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.The black Sumatran langur, black-and-white langur and mitered langur were formerly considered a subspecies of the P. melalophos.
Animals of the same family as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cercopithecidae):
- Toque macaque becoming 35 years old
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached guenon becoming 23 years old
- Black-footed gray langur growing to a mass of 10.03 kgs (22.11 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque becoming 40 years old
- Hamadryas baboon becoming 40 years old
- Hamlyn’s monkey becoming 13.5 years old
- White-thighed surili growing to a mass of 5.9 kgs (13.01 lbs)
- Tonkean macaque growing to a mass of 10.07 kgs (22.2 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Black-crested Sumatran langur
With an average age of 16 years, Black-crested Sumatran langur are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Cheetah usually reaching 19 years
- Cape grysbok usually reaching 14 years
- Giant otter usually reaching 12.83 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur usually reaching 17.08 years
- Common marmoset usually reaching 16.75 years
- Common pipistrelle usually reaching 16.67 years
- Servaline genet usually reaching 17 years
- American marten usually reaching 19 years
- Thylacine usually reaching 13 years
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 13 years
Animals with the same number of babies Black-crested Sumatran langur
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Dall sheep
- Australian sea lion
- Sunda flying lemur
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Pudú
- Big-headed African mole-rat
- Kivu shrew
- Allen’s woodrat
- Southern three-banded armadillo
Weighting as much as Black-crested Sumatran langur
A fully grown Black-crested Sumatran langur reaches around 6.45 kg (14.22 lbs). So do these animals:
- Peruvian spider monkey weighting 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) on average
- Black howler weighting 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs) on average
- Tasmanian pademelon weighting 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs) on average
- Moor macaque weighting 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) on average
- Formosan rock macaque weighting 5.75 kilos (12.68 lbs) on average
- Black crested mangabey weighting 6.51 kilos (14.35 lbs) on average
- Purple-faced langur weighting 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs) on average
- Venezuelan red howler weighting 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs) on average
- Bolivian red howler weighting 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs) on average
- Red-handed howler weighting 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Those animals grow as big as a Black-crested Sumatran langur:
- Peruvian spider monkey with 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common genet with 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Platypus with 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red-faced spider monkey with 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bonnet macaque with 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- European hare with 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Crested mona monkey with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- African palm civet with 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Alpine woolly rat with 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)