How many baby Brown greater galagos are in a litter?
A Brown greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 131 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 46 grams (0.1 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Galagonidae family (genus: Otolemur). An adult Brown greater galago grows up to a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″).
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 brown greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus), also known as the large-eared greater galago or thick-tailed galago, is a nocturnal primate, the largest in the family of galagos. As opposed to smaller galago species it would climb, walk or run rather than leap.
Other animals of the family Galagonidae
Brown greater galago is a member of the Galagonidae, as are these animals:
- Dusky bushbaby weighting only 213 grams
- Mohol bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting only 278 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zanzibar bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali bushbaby weighting only 250 grams
- Senegal bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brown greater galago
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Gayal
- Mahogany glider
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Sangihe tarsier
- Giant roundleaf bat
- Mountain paca
- Least pipistrelle
Animals that get as old as a Brown greater galago
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.75 years:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with 21.75 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 16 years
- Swamp wallaby with 15 years
- Cape genet with 15 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- Marsh mongoose with 17.42 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
- Oribi with 15.75 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- Swift fox with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown greater galago
What other animals weight around 1.22 kg (2.69 lbs)?
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea usually reaching 1.34 kgs (2.95 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Blanford’s fox weighting 994 grams
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- European pine marten usually reaching 1.3 kgs (2.87 lbs)
- Japanese marten usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus usually reaching 1.44 kgs (3.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown greater galago
Also reaching around 30.7 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mexican prairie dog gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Arizona gray squirrel gets as big as 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mexican fox squirrel gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- European polecat gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern woolly lemur gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)