How many baby Black lemurs are in a litter?
A Black lemur (Eulemur macaco) 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 127 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 60 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Lemuridae family (genus: Eulemur). An adult Black lemur grows up to a size of 39.7 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 black lemur (Eulemur macaco) is a species of lemur from the family Lemuridae. Like all lemurs, it is endemic to Madagascar. Originally, the species was thought to have two subspecies, Eulemur macaco macaco and Eulemur macaco flavifrons, both of which were elevated to species status by Mittermeier et al. in 2008 to Eulemur macaco and Eulemur flavifrons respectively. The most startling difference between the two species is the eye colour; Eulemur flavifrons, the blue-eyed black lemur, has blue eyes, while Eulemur macaco, the black lemur, has brown or orange eyes, and also has ear tufts.Both species live in northwest Madagascar. The black lemur occurs in moist forests in the Sambirano region of Madagascar and on nearby islands. The blue-eyed black lemur is restricted to the Sahamalaza Peninsula and adjacent forests. There are reports of the two species hybridizing where their ranges overlap in Manongarivo Special Reserve.
Other animals of the family Lemuridae
Black lemur is a member of the Lemuridae, as are these animals:
- Ring-tailed lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongoose lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red ruffed lemur weighting around 3.87 kilograms (8.53 lbs)
- Red lemur weighting around 2.39 kilograms (5.27 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sanford’s brown lemur weighting around 2.39 kilograms (5.27 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Black lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Collared mangabey
- Polar bear
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Siberian musk deer
- Black-spotted cuscus
- François’ langur
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Red-fronted gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Black lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Collared mangabey with 30 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Okapi with 33 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 27 years
- Kinkajou with 29 years
- African civet with 28 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black lemur
What other animals weight around 2.48 kg (5.46 lbs)?
- White-sided jackrabbit usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Alpine woolly rat usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Ring-tailed lemur usually reaching 2.63 kgs (5.8 lbs)
- Kinkajou usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Monk saki usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black lemur
Also reaching around 39.7 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Jameson’s red rock hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Korean hare gets as big as 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mongoose lemur gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Chinese hare gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Riverine rabbit gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Small dorcopsis gets as big as 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Aye-aye gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Philippine flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)