How many baby Celebes crested macaques are in a litter?
A Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 172 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 458 grams (1.01 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Celebes crested macaque grows up to a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra), also known as the crested black macaque, Sulawesi crested macaque, or the black ape, is an Old World monkey that lives in the Tangkoko reserve in the northeastern tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (Celebes), as well as on smaller neighboring islands.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Celebes crested macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gee’s golden langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-eared guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lion-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raffles’ banded langur weighting around 7.02 kilograms (15.48 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Celebes crested macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Okapi
- Black-eared flying fox
- Red bush squirrel
- Bongo (antelope)
- Short-eared possum
- Chinese pangolin
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Pemba flying fox
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Kirk’s dik-dik
Animals that get as old as a Celebes crested macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Grey long-eared bat with 15 years
- Lechwe with 18.5 years
- Goat with 20.75 years
- Indian hog deer with 20 years
- Red giant flying squirrel with 16 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Caracal with 17 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Celebes crested macaque
What other animals weight around 7.37 kg (16.25 lbs)?
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey usually reaching 8.27 kgs (18.23 lbs)
- South American gray fox usually reaching 6.34 kgs (13.98 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur usually reaching 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Venezuelan red howler usually reaching 6.41 kgs (14.13 lbs)
- Koala usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- Bush dog usually reaching 6.32 kgs (13.93 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Müeller’s gibbon usually reaching 5.92 kgs (13.05 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Celebes crested macaque
Also reaching around 54.9 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Sand cat gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Mountain hare gets as big as 50.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Granada hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black crested gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Toque macaque gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Six-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tibetan macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bonnet macaque gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)