How many baby Aye-ayes are in a litter?
A Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 166 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 122 grams (0.27 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Daubentoniidae family (genus: Daubentonia). An adult Aye-aye grows up to a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
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 aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate. It is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward-slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called percussive foraging, and takes up 5–41% of foraging time. The only other animal species known to find food in this way is the striped possum. From an ecological point of view, the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN; and a second species, Daubentonia robusta, appears to have become extinct at some point within the last 1000 years.
Animals that share a litter size with Aye-aye
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
- Little yellow bat
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Sangihe tarsier
- Salt’s dik-dik
- Mantled guereza
- Tenkile
- Java mouse-deer
- African bush elephant
- Weddell seal
Animals that get as old as a Aye-aye
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.25 years:
- Swift fox with 20 years
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Margay with 20 years
- Asian palm civet with 22.42 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- Vicuña with 24.75 years
- Buru babirusa with 24 years
- Black howler with 20.25 years
- Common wombat with 26.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aye-aye
What other animals weight around 2.74 kg (6.04 lbs)?
- Johnston’s genet usually reaching 2.23 kgs (4.92 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin usually reaching 2.52 kgs (5.56 lbs)
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Large bamboo rat usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum usually reaching 2.69 kgs (5.93 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin usually reaching 2.79 kgs (6.15 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Sunda stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aye-aye
Also reaching around 40 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Woodlark cuscus gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tapeti gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- New England cottontail gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Sable gets as big as 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yunnan hare gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Monk saki gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Pagai Island macaque gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-eared opossum gets as big as 36 cm (1′ 3″)