How many baby Barbary macaques are in a litter?
A Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 164 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 449 grams (0.99 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Barbary macaque grows up to a size of 54.9 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 Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), also known as Barbary ape or magot, is a species of macaque unique for its distribution outside Asia. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.The Barbary macaque is of particular interest because males play an atypical role in rearing young. Because of uncertain paternity, males are integral to raising all infants. Generally, Barbary macaques of all ages and sexes contribute in alloparental care of young.Macaque diets consist primarily of plants and insects and they are found in a variety of habitats. Males live to around 25 years old while females may live up to 30 years. Besides humans, they are the only free-living primates in Europe. Although the species is commonly referred to as the “Barbary ape”, the Barbary macaque is actually a true monkey. Its name refers to the Barbary Coast of Northwest Africa.The Barbary macaque population of Gibraltar is the only such population outside Northern Africa and the only population of wild monkeys in Europe.About 230 macaques live on the Rock of Gibraltar. This population appears to be stable or increasing, while the North African population is declining.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Barbary macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mandrill with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ursine colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygathrix bieti weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- Assam macaque weighting around 8.55 kilograms (18.85 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Barbary macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Marsh deer
- Dusky elephant shrew
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Black-eared flying fox
- Red bush squirrel
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Banteng
- Dryas monkey
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Animals that get as old as a Barbary macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- Risso’s dolphin with 20 years
- Cattle with 20 years
- Giant forest hog with 18 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- Common wallaroo with 24 years
- Black howler with 20.25 years
- Keen’s myotis with 18.5 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 22.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Barbary macaque
What other animals weight around 11.49 kg (25.32 lbs)?
- Mantled guereza usually reaching 9.96 kgs (21.96 lbs)
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac usually reaching 10.76 kgs (23.72 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 12.28 kgs (27.07 lbs)
- Iberian lynx usually reaching 11.08 kgs (24.43 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 10.48 kgs (23.1 lbs)
- Ocelot usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Barbary macaque
Also reaching around 54.9 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Lowland paca gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pygmy hog gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose gets as big as 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gelada gets as big as 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Gray fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Nilgiri marten gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)