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How old does a Toque macaque get? (age expectancy)

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.

A Toque macaque gets as old as 35 years

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):

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:

Animals with the same number of babies Toque macaque

The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:

Weighting as much as Toque macaque

A fully grown Toque macaque reaches around 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs). So do these animals:

Animals as big as a Toque macaque

Those animals grow as big as a Toque macaque: