How many baby Black-crested Sumatran langurs are in a litter?
A Black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Presbytis). An adult Black-crested Sumatran langur grows up to a size of 50.4 cm (1′ 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.
The black-crested Sumatran langur (Presbytis melalophos) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to Sumatra in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.The black Sumatran langur, black-and-white langur and mitered langur were formerly considered a subspecies of the P. melalophos.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Black-crested Sumatran langur is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toque macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan talapoin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- De Brazza’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Drill (animal) with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-crested Sumatran langur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indiana bat
- Southern viscacha
- Bharal
- Northern olingo
- Common wallaroo
- Calabar angwantibo
- Sitatunga
- Oecomys concolor
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Mauritian flying fox
Animals that get as old as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16 years:
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Mohol bushbaby with 16.5 years
- Jentink’s duiker with 17.5 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
What other animals weight around 6.45 kg (14.22 lbs)?
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Müeller’s gibbon usually reaching 5.92 kgs (13.05 lbs)
- Southern river otter usually reaching 7.5 kgs (16.53 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Mantled howler usually reaching 6.58 kgs (14.51 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Mentawai langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black-crested Sumatran langur
Also reaching around 50.4 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- American badger gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Vancouver Island marmot gets as big as 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Monk saki gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mexican cottontail gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)