What is the maximal age a Toque macaque reaches?
An adult Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) usually gets as old as 35 years.
Toque macaques are around 181 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 417 grams (0.92 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). As a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 48 cm (1′ 7″).
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 toque macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa (Sinhala: රිළවා), (hence “rillow” in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Animals of the same family as a Toque macaque
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cercopithecidae):
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stump-tailed macaque becoming 30 years old
- Wolf’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s mona monkey becoming 33 years old
- King colobus becoming 30.5 years old
- Hamlyn’s monkey becoming 13.5 years old
- Patas monkey becoming 23.83 years old
- Tana River mangabey becoming 21 years old
- Black colobus growing to a mass of 9.1 kgs (20.06 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Toque macaque
With an average age of 35 years, Toque macaque are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mona monkey usually reaching 30 years
- Narwhal usually reaching 40 years
- Sea otter usually reaching 30 years
- Tamaraw usually reaching 28 years
- Northern bottlenose whale usually reaching 37 years
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 39 years
- Kinkajou usually reaching 29 years
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 41.08 years
- Harp seal usually reaching 42 years
- Greater horseshoe bat usually reaching 30 years
Animals with the same number of babies Toque macaque
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Fin whale
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- South American sea lion
- Painted ringtail possum
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Small flying fox
- Mongoose lemur
Weighting as much as Toque macaque
A fully grown Toque macaque reaches around 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs). So do these animals:
- Short-beaked echidna weighting 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs) on average
- Pale-throated sloth weighting 4.33 kilos (9.55 lbs) on average
- Brown’s pademelon weighting 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs) on average
- Crab-eating macaque weighting 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) on average
- European wildcat weighting 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) on average
- Pampas fox weighting 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs) on average
- Alpine marmot weighting 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) on average
- Raccoon dog weighting 4.22 kilos (9.3 lbs) on average
- Nine-banded armadillo weighting 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) on average
- White-nosed coati weighting 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Toque macaque
Those animals grow as big as a Toque macaque:
- Yunnan hare with 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Asian palm civet with 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Long-tailed porcupine with 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Chinese ferret-badger with 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brown’s pademelon with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Dusky pademelon with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian grey mongoose with 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- American hog-nosed skunk with 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Coypu with 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Arabian gazelle with 50 cm (1′ 8″)