How many baby Red-shanked doucs are in a litter?
A Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 183 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 192 grams (0.42 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Pygathrix). An adult Red-shanked douc grows up to a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 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 red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is a species of Old World monkey, among the most colourful of all primates. It is an arboreal and diurnal monkey that eats and sleeps in the trees of the forest.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Red-shanked douc is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Proboscis monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zanzibar red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-shanked douc
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Arabian oryx
- Northern giraffe
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- Black-shanked douc
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Monjon
- Brown greater galago
- South American sea lion
Animals that get as old as a Red-shanked douc
Other animals that usually reach the age of 25 years:
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Three-striped night monkey with 25.25 years
- Raccoon with 20.83 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Northern elephant seal with 20.25 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Sooty mangabey with 26.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-shanked douc
What other animals weight around 9.48 kg (20.9 lbs)?
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 8.5 kgs (18.74 lbs)
- Ursine colobus usually reaching 7.7 kgs (16.98 lbs)
- Toolache wallaby usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Marine otter usually reaching 11.2 kgs (24.69 lbs)
- Western red colobus usually reaching 8.43 kgs (18.58 lbs)
- Water chevrotain usually reaching 10.83 kgs (23.88 lbs)
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 7.98 kgs (17.59 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey usually reaching 8.27 kgs (18.23 lbs)
- African golden cat usually reaching 11.29 kgs (24.89 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.12 kgs (20.11 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-shanked douc
Also reaching around 61.7 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Giant bandicoot gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Arctic fox gets as big as 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tres Marias raccoon gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Blue duiker gets as big as 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pygathrix bieti gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Black crested gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)