What is the maximal age a L’Hoest’s monkey reaches?
An adult L’Hoest’s monkey (Cercopithecus lhoesti) usually gets as old as 16 years.
When born, they weight 468 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 51 cm (1′ 9″).
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.
L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) or mountain monkey, is a guenon found in the upper eastern Congo basin. They mostly live in mountainous forest areas in small, female-dominated groups. They have a dark coat and can be distinguished by a characteristic white beard.
Animals of the same family as a L’Hoest’s monkey
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cercopithecidae):
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dryas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s langur growing to a mass of 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey becoming 23 years old
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque becoming 30 years old
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mandrill becoming 46.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as L’Hoest’s monkey
With an average age of 16 years, L’Hoest’s monkey are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 14 years
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 17.67 years
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 16 years
- Caracal usually reaching 17 years
- Dall sheep usually reaching 16 years
- European rabbit usually reaching 18 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 19 years
- Northern bat usually reaching 15.5 years
- Gerenuk usually reaching 13 years
- Red fox usually reaching 15 years
Animals with the same number of babies L’Hoest’s monkey
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Greater dog-like bat
- Jentink’s duiker
- Kolan vole
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Woylie
- Spotted bat
- Toolache wallaby
- Buffy flower bat
- Red fruit bat
- Guanaco
Weighting as much as L’Hoest’s monkey
A fully grown L’Hoest’s monkey reaches around 5.31 kg (11.72 lbs). So do these animals:
- Crab-eating macaque weighting 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) on average
- Godman’s rock-wallaby weighting 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs) on average
- Red-necked pademelon weighting 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs) on average
- Giant bandicoot weighting 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) on average
- Bush dog weighting 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs) on average
- Chinese pangolin weighting 4.67 kilos (10.3 lbs) on average
- Hose’s langur weighting 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs) on average
- Coypu weighting 6.36 kilos (14.02 lbs) on average
- Mexican agouti weighting 5 kilos (11.02 lbs) on average
- Big hairy armadillo weighting 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a L’Hoest’s monkey
Those animals grow as big as a L’Hoest’s monkey:
- Eastern falanouc with 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Liberian mongoose with 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Rüppell’s fox with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Arabian gazelle with 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Riverine rabbit with 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Grivet with 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- François’ langur with 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pig-tailed langur with 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)