How many baby Chacma baboons are in a litter?
A Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 185 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 599 grams (1.32 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Papio). An adult Chacma baboon grows up to a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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 chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings. These behaviors form parts of a complex evolutionary ecology. In general, the species is not threatened, but human population pressure has increased contact between humans and baboons. Hunting, trapping, and accidents kill or remove many baboons from the wild, thereby reducing baboon numbers and disrupting their social structure.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Chacma baboon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Moor macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thollon’s red colobus raching a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lion-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chacma baboon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Steller’s sea cow
- Highland brush mouse
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Typical vlei rat
- Gray-backed sportive lemur
- Spectral tarsier
- Whiskered bat
- Tufted deer
Animals that get as old as a Chacma baboon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 45 years:
- Walrus with 40 years
- Northern bottlenose whale with 37 years
- Indian rhinoceros with 49 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Northern giraffe with 36.25 years
- Cuvier’s beaked whale with 36 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Crab-eating macaque with 38 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with 46 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chacma baboon
What other animals weight around 17.73 kg (39.09 lbs)?
- Oribi usually reaching 17.16 kgs (37.83 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac usually reaching 19.9 kgs (43.87 lbs)
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Olive baboon usually reaching 17.73 kgs (39.09 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac usually reaching 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
- Gelada usually reaching 15.98 kgs (35.23 lbs)