How many baby Bonnet macaques are in a litter?
A Bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 161 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 368 grams (0.81 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Bonnet macaque grows up to a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″).
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 bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata), also known as zati, is a species of macaque endemic to southern India. Its distribution is limited by the Indian Ocean on three sides and the Godavari and Tapti Rivers, along with its related competitor the rhesus macaque in the north. Land use changes in the last few decades have resulted in changes in its distribution boundaries with the rhesus macaque, raising concern for its status in the wild.This Old World monkey is a diurnal animal.It is 35–60 cm long plus a tail of 35–68 cm. Males weigh 5.5 to 9.0 kg, females 3.5 to 4.5 kg. The monkey can live up to 35 years in captivity.The bonnet macaque feeds on fruits, nuts, seeds, flowers, invertebrates, and cereals. In southern India, this macaque exists as commensal to humans, feeding on food given by humans and raiding crops and houses.Two subspecies of bonnet macaques have been identified: M. r. radiata and M. r. diluta.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Bonnet macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Grivet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zanzibar red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-throated guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thollon’s red colobus raching a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bonnet macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
- Goitered gazelle
- New Zealand sea lion
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Feather-tailed possum
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Mount Kenya mole shrew
- Lesser bamboo bat
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Bonnet macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Japanese macaque with 33 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- Fallow deer with 25 years
- American badger with 26 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- Angolan talapoin with 30.83 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Honey badger with 26.5 years
- Guadalupe fur seal with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bonnet macaque
What other animals weight around 5 kg (11.02 lbs)?
- Short-eared rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.02 kgs (8.86 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox usually reaching 5.54 kgs (12.21 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Gray dorcopsis usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)
- Blue monkey usually reaching 5.04 kgs (11.11 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Raccoon dog usually reaching 4.22 kgs (9.3 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 5.39 kgs (11.88 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bonnet macaque
Also reaching around 47.5 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian grey mongoose gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose gets as big as 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sunda flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Woolly flying squirrel gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Long-nosed echymipera gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)