How many baby Blue monkeys are in a litter?
A Blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 138 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 402 grams (0.89 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Blue monkey grows up to a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″).
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 blue monkey or diademed monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia. It sometimes includes Sykes’, silver, and golden monkeys as subspecies.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Blue monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- White-fronted surili weighting around 6.12 kilograms (13.49 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- François’ langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- King colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Blue monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Cuban solenodon
- Brazilian porcupine
- Roan antelope
- Ribbon seal
- Thorold’s deer
- Nyala
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Golden bamboo lemur
- Mongoose lemur
Animals that get as old as a Blue monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 27.08 years:
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with 25 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 22.83 years
- Anoa with 22.5 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- Kob with 21.92 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- Brown woolly monkey with 30 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Bharal with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Blue monkey
What other animals weight around 5.04 kg (11.11 lbs)?
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Black howler usually reaching 5.58 kgs (12.3 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Kloss’s gibbon usually reaching 5.84 kgs (12.87 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Blue monkey
Also reaching around 57.5 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern river otter gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Gray dorcopsis gets as big as 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- White-bellied spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Zanzibar red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)