How many baby Lion-tailed macaques are in a litter?
A Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 172 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 417 grams (0.92 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Lion-tailed macaque grows up to a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″).
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 lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), or the wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Lion-tailed macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Zanzibar red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Barbary macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East Javan langur weighting around 9.72 kilograms (21.43 lbs)
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Diana monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crested mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lion-tailed macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Evening bat
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- Bush vlei rat
- Black wildebeest
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Brown’s pademelon
- Diana monkey
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- Common bottlenose dolphin
Animals that get as old as a Lion-tailed macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 40 years:
- Spectacled bear with 36.42 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Toque macaque with 35 years
- Sumatran rhinoceros with 35 years
- Hamadryas baboon with 40 years
- American bison with 33 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with 34.25 years
- South American tapir with 35 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with 44 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lion-tailed macaque
What other animals weight around 6 kg (13.22 lbs)?
- Tana River mangabey usually reaching 7.08 kgs (15.61 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Desmarest’s hutia usually reaching 5.2 kgs (11.46 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur usually reaching 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
- Red fox usually reaching 4.83 kgs (10.65 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Coypu usually reaching 6.36 kgs (14.02 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis usually reaching 6.2 kgs (13.67 lbs)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Silvery gibbon usually reaching 5.87 kgs (12.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Lion-tailed macaque
Also reaching around 54.7 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Crab-eating fox gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ground cuscus gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Gelada gets as big as 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Island fox gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- American badger gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Arabian gazelle gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)