How many baby Black capuchins are in a litter?
A Black capuchin (Cebus nigritus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.1 kg (9.04 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Cebus). An adult Black capuchin grows up to a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″).
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 black capuchin, (Sapajus nigritus), also known as the black-horned capuchin, is a capuchin monkey from the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil and far north-eastern Argentina. Historically, it was included as a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Black capuchin is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Kaapori capuchin weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ollala brothers’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bolivian red howler weighting around 6.61 kilograms (14.57 lbs)
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-faced saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed saki weighting around 2.8 kilograms (6.17 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey weighting around 7.09 kilograms (15.63 lbs)
- Chestnut-bellied titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black capuchin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-striped free-tailed bat
- Grant’s gazelle
- Mountain tapir
- Hartebeest
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Riverine rabbit
- Addax
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Gemsbok
Animals that get as old as a Black capuchin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 44 years:
- Crab-eating macaque with 38 years
- Crabeater seal with 39 years
- White rhinoceros with 50 years
- Lar gibbon with 40 years
- Hamadryas baboon with 40 years
- Polar bear with 38.17 years
- Spotted seal with 35.5 years
- Mandrill with 46.25 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Northern bottlenose whale with 37 years
Animals with the same size as a Black capuchin
Also reaching around 43.5 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Telefomin cuscus gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Raccoon dog gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Coppery ringtail possum gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Woolly hare gets as big as 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Banded palm civet gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)