How many baby Bioko Allen’s bushbabys are in a litter?
A Bioko Allen’s bushbaby (Galago alleni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 133 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Galagonidae family (genus: Galago). An adult Bioko Allen’s bushbaby grows up to a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Bioko Allen’s bushbaby (Sciurocheirus alleni) is a species of primate in the family Galagidae found in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. The bushbaby is currently a Least-concern species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Other animals of the family Galagonidae
Bioko Allen’s bushbaby is a member of the Galagonidae, as are these animals:
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting only 278 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky bushbaby weighting only 213 grams
- Senegal bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zanzibar bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali bushbaby weighting only 250 grams
- Brown greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mohol bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Giant bandicoot
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Rwanda African mole-rat
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Narwhal
- Grey-cheeked mangabey
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Woodlark cuscus
- Javan slit-faced bat
- Allen’s woodrat
Animals that get as old as a Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Southern tree hyrax with 10 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Four-horned antelope with 10.75 years
- Common treeshrew with 12.42 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Raccoon dog with 14 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
What other animals weight around 268 grams (0.59 lbs)?
- Fire-footed rope squirrel weighting 243 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco weighting 235 grams
- Thomas’s rope squirrel weighting 224 grams
- Southwestern water vole weighting 220 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel weighting 255 grams
- Lundomys weighting 238 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 266 grams
- Common gundi weighting 289 grams
- Napo spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat weighting 315 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
Also reaching around 20 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Mount Data shrew-rat gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Three-striped ground squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- San Martín Island woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky-footed woodrat gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Great-tailed triok gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Culion tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Guinean rat gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Koslov’s pika gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)