What is the maximal age a Golden-backed uakari reaches?
An adult Golden-backed uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus) usually gets as old as 18 years.
When born, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Cacajao). Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
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 golden-backed uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus) or black-headed uakari, is a New World primate from the family Pitheciidae. It lives in the Amazon Rainforest, and is found in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It has black hair covering its body, except for a reddish abdomen, tail, and upper limbs, and a bald face. It has highly specialised teeth which allow it to eat seeds and fruits with hard shells. The name golden-backed uakari is a neotype proposed by Boubli et al. (2008).
Animals of the same family as a Golden-backed uakari
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cebidae):
- Venezuelan red howler becoming 25 years old
- Wedge-capped capuchin becoming 41 years old
- Brown woolly monkey becoming 30 years old
- Kaapori capuchin growing to a mass of 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Brown howler growing to a mass of 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Black capuchin becoming 44 years old
- Hershkovitz’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut-bellied titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black bearded saki becoming 18 years old
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing the scale to 309 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Golden-backed uakari
With an average age of 18 years, Golden-backed uakari are in good companionship of the following animals:
- American marten usually reaching 19 years
- Lechwe usually reaching 18.5 years
- Chinese goral usually reaching 17.25 years
- Yellow mongoose usually reaching 15.17 years
- Sheep usually reaching 19.17 years
- Fennec fox usually reaching 14.58 years
- Cape porcupine usually reaching 20 years
- Cougar usually reaching 20 years
- Nine-banded armadillo usually reaching 15 years
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 21 years
Weighting as much as Golden-backed uakari
A fully grown Golden-backed uakari reaches around 3.13 kg (6.9 lbs). So do these animals:
- Wedge-capped capuchin weighting 2.79 kilos (6.15 lbs) on average
- African brush-tailed porcupine weighting 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) on average
- Asian small-clawed otter weighting 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) on average
- Owston’s palm civet weighting 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) on average
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Brown palm civet weighting 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) on average
- Colombian white-faced capuchin weighting 3.01 kilos (6.64 lbs) on average
- Giant forest genet weighting 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs) on average
- Omilteme cottontail weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Rock hyrax weighting 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Golden-backed uakari
Those animals grow as big as a Golden-backed uakari:
- Northern brown bandicoot with 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cape hare with 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red-bellied lemur with 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Olive colobus with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Palawan stink badger with 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Silky cuscus with 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Angolan talapoin with 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Ground cuscus with 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)