🐒Rhesus macaque
The rhesus macaque, colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey in the Macaca genus. There are between six and nine recognised subspecies split between two groups, the Chinese-derived and the Indian-derived. Generally brown or grey in colour, it is 47–53 cm (19–21 in) in length with a 20.7–22.9 cm (8.1–9.0 in) tail and weighs 5.3–7.7 kg (12–17 lb). It is native to South, Central, and Southeast Asia and has the widest geographic range of all non-human primates, occupying a great diversity of altitudes and habitats.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 6.61 kg
- Body length
- 0.66 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Rhesus macaque
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass6.61 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 8.23 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length0.66 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass88 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan40 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 40 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length14 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation165 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 165 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range5.91 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density166 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l6.6 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 Rhesus macaque yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyCercopithecidae
- ›genusMacaca
- ›speciesMacaca mulatta
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusMacaca
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- superfamilyCercopithecoidea
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusMacaca
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