🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
vs
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Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
One clip names both of them
108,501 views between them.
Rhesus macaque outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 2.6× — 6.6 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Body length
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 67 million years ago.
Estimates range from 56 to 74 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).