What is the maximal age a Red-shanked douc reaches?
An adult Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) usually gets as old as 25 years.
Red-shanked doucs are around 183 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 192 grams (0.42 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Pygathrix), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″).
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 red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is a species of Old World monkey, among the most colourful of all primates. It is an arboreal and diurnal monkey that eats and sleeps in the trees of the forest.
Animals of the same family as a Red-shanked douc
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cercopithecidae):
- Toque macaque becoming 35 years old
- Thomas’s langur growing to a mass of 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River mangabey becoming 21 years old
- Black crested mangabey becoming 26.75 years old
- Booted macaque growing to a mass of 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey becoming 33 years old
- L’Hoest’s monkey becoming 16 years old
- Japanese macaque becoming 33 years old
- White-throated guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Red-shanked douc
With an average age of 25 years, Red-shanked douc are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Springbok usually reaching 20 years
- Vicuña usually reaching 24.75 years
- Dusky leaf monkey usually reaching 25 years
- Collared peccary usually reaching 24.42 years
- Greater mouse-eared bat usually reaching 22 years
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 21.5 years
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 25 years
- Roan antelope usually reaching 20 years
- Cape porcupine usually reaching 20 years
- Daubenton’s bat usually reaching 28 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red-shanked douc
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Japanese macaque
- Grant’s gazelle
- Père David’s vole
- Red-bellied titi
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Javan rhinoceros
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Long-footed water rat
- Banteng
Weighting as much as Red-shanked douc
A fully grown Red-shanked douc reaches around 9.48 kg (20.9 lbs). So do these animals:
- Pygathrix bieti weighting 11 kilos (24.25 lbs) on average
- Lowland paca weighting 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs) on average
- Lowland paca weighting 8.18 kilos (18.03 lbs) on average
- Greater long-nosed armadillo weighting 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs) on average
- Black colobus weighting 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs) on average
- Culpeo weighting 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) on average
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey weighting 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs) on average
- Tasmanian devil weighting 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) on average
- Smooth-coated otter weighting 8.96 kilos (19.75 lbs) on average
- Southern pig-tailed macaque weighting 7.85 kilos (17.31 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red-shanked douc
Those animals grow as big as a Red-shanked douc:
- Crab-eating fox with 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Patas monkey with 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Marsh mongoose with 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Arctic hare with 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pileated gibbon with 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pennant’s colobus with 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian pangolin with 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Neotropical otter with 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray fox with 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)