How many baby Crowned lemurs are in a litter?
A Crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 57 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Lemuridae family (genus: Eulemur). An adult Crowned lemur grows up to a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″).
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 crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) is a lemur that is 31–36 cm (12–14 in) long and weighs 2 kg (4.4 lb). Its tail is about 42–51 cm (17–20 in) long.
Other animals of the family Lemuridae
Crowned lemur is a member of the Lemuridae, as are these animals:
- Ring-tailed lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red ruffed lemur weighting around 3.87 kilograms (8.53 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-headed lemur weighting around 2.4 kilograms (5.29 lbs)
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur weighting around 1.62 kilograms (3.57 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Crowned lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Small dorcopsis
- Little brown bat
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Angola colobus
- Hirola
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Javan surili
- Mount Kenya mole shrew
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Black-tailed hutia
Animals that get as old as a Crowned lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.17 years:
- Fishing cat with 10 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with 10 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Taruca with 10.58 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 8 years
- Pichi with 9 years
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 8 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crowned lemur
What other animals weight around 1.7 kg (3.75 lbs)?
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Subalpine woolly rat usually reaching 1.99 kgs (4.39 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat usually reaching 1.42 kgs (3.13 lbs)
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Crowned lemur
Also reaching around 35.2 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Xerus erythropus gets as big as 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Menzies’ echymipera gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Central African oyan gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- San José brush rabbit gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Volcano rabbit gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Gambian mongoose gets as big as 35 cm (1′ 2″)