How many baby Mona monkeys are in a litter?
A Mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 281 grams (0.62 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Mona monkey grows up to a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon. The mona monkey can also be found on the island of Grenada as it was transported to the island aboard slave ships headed to the New World during the 18th century. This guenon lives in groups of up to thirty-five in forests. It mainly feeds on fruit, but sometimes eats insects and leaves. The mona monkey has brown agouti fur with a white rump. Its tail and legs are black and the face is blue-grey with a dark stripe across the face. The mona monkey carries food in cheek pouches.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Mona monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Raffles’ banded langur weighting around 7.02 kilograms (15.48 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s langur weighting around 6.69 kilograms (14.75 lbs)
- Grivet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-fronted surili weighting around 6.12 kilograms (13.49 lbs)
- Mantled guereza with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mona monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Least horseshoe bat
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Southern elephant seal
- Honduran white bat
- Margay
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Dassie rat
- Northern sportive lemur
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Silver-haired bat
Animals that get as old as a Mona monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Sika deer with 25.42 years
- Hawaiian monk seal with 30 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with 30 years
- Guanaco with 28.25 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with 27 years
- Canada lynx with 26.75 years
- Drill (animal) with 33.33 years
- Spotted seal with 35.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mona monkey
What other animals weight around 3.98 kg (8.77 lbs)?
- Coquerel’s sifaka usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 4.46 kgs (9.83 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Tiger quoll usually reaching 3.32 kgs (7.32 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 3.24 kgs (7.14 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot usually reaching 3.71 kgs (8.18 lbs)
- South American coati usually reaching 3.78 kgs (8.33 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mona monkey
Also reaching around 51 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Sunda pangolin gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red lemur gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Nine-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)