🐒Proboscis monkey
The proboscis monkey or long-nosed monkey is an arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose, a reddish-brown skin color and a long tail. It is endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo and is found mostly in mangrove forests and on the coastal areas of the island.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 13 kg
- Body length
- 0.7 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Proboscis monkey
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass13 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.7 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass96 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length11 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity5.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation167 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 166 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.25AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range1.4 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density28 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l13 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Proboscis monkey yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyCercopithecidae
- ›genusNasalis
- ›speciesNasalis larvatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyColobinae
- genusNasalis
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- superfamilyCercopithecoidea
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyColobinae
- genusNasalis
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