How big does a Toque macaque get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) reaches an average size of 48 cm (1′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 35 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs). A Toque macaque has 1 babies at once. The Toque macaque (genus: Macaca) 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 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
We found other animals of the Cercopithecidae family:
- Zanzibar red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Grivet with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per litter
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Tana River mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mandrill with a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Toque macaque
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Toque macaque:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red-handed howler with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a size of 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- European pine marten with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Mexican cottontail with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Toque macaque
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Toque macaque:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Campbell’s mona monkey
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Grant’s gazelle
- White-beaked dolphin
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Crab-eating macaque
- Highland brush mouse
- Big brown bat
- Eld’s deer
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Toque macaque
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Toque macaque:
- Malayan tapir with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Common genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- California sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Asian black bear with an average maximal age of 35.17 years
- Rodrigues flying fox with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Harbor seal with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Crab-eating macaque with an average maximal age of 38 years
- Pagai Island macaque with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Bearded seal with an average maximal age of 31.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Toque macaque
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macaca sinica:
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby with a weight of 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.57 kilos (10.08 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon with a weight of 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey with a weight of 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs)
- Grivet with a weight of 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs)
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 5.35 kilos (11.79 lbs)
- Mona monkey with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)