How many baby Golden bamboo lemurs are in a litter?
A Golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 142 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 14 kg (30.86 lbs) and measure 15.7 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Lemuridae family (genus: Hapalemur). An adult Golden bamboo lemur grows up to a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″).
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 golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), bokombolomena or varibolomena in Malagasy, is a medium-sized bamboo lemur endemic to south-eastern Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Lemuridae
Golden bamboo lemur is a member of the Lemuridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red ruffed lemur weighting around 3.87 kilograms (8.53 lbs)
- Red lemur weighting around 2.39 kilograms (5.27 lbs)
- Black lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur weighting around 1.62 kilograms (3.57 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crowned lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongoose lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common brown lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sanford’s brown lemur weighting around 2.39 kilograms (5.27 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Golden bamboo lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Ground pangolin
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Collared peccary
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Dama gazelle
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- François’ langur
- Red-tailed monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Golden bamboo lemur
What other animals weight around 1.57 kg (3.45 lbs)?
- Chinese hare usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Platypus usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Reclusive ringtail possum usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- European rabbit usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.69 kgs (3.73 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- Crowned lemur usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Golden bamboo lemur
Also reaching around 30.5 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Conover’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hooded skunk gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Peters’s squirrel gets as big as 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Collared titi gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow mongoose gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)