How big does a Patas monkey get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas) reaches an average size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 23.83 years, they grow from 623 grams (1.37 lbs) to 7.99 kg (17.61 lbs). A Patas monkey has 1 babies at once. The Patas monkey (genus: Erythrocebus) is a member of the family Cercopithecidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the wadi monkey or hussar monkey, is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa, and into East Africa. It was formerly considered the only member of the genus Erythrocebus, but the Blue Nile patas monkey, previously synonymized with this species, was resurrected in 2018.
Animals of the same family as a Patas monkey
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-tailed monkey with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Mandrill with a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Hose’s langur bringing 6.29 kilos (13.87 lbs) to the scale
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pagai Island macaque with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same size as a Patas monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Patas monkey:
- Black colobus with a size of 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Suni with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pygmy hog with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Patas monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Patas monkey:
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Sea otter
- West Indian manatee
- American bison
- Melck’s house bat
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Maxwell’s duiker
- North American porcupine
- Hamadryas baboon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Patas monkey
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Patas monkey:
- Guatemalan black howler with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Aardwolf with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 21.17 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- European bison with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Tamaraw with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Cotton-top tamarin with an average maximal age of 23.08 years
- Red river hog with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Giant anteater with an average maximal age of 26 years
Animals with the same weight as a Patas monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Erythrocebus patas:
- Moor macaque with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Angola colobus with a weight of 8.99 kilos (19.82 lbs)
- Fossa (animal) with a weight of 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs)
- Pygmy hog with a weight of 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)