How many baby De Brazza’s monkeys are in a litter?
A De Brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus) 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 260 grams (0.57 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult De Brazza’s monkey grows up to a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″).
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.
DeBrazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus) is an Old World monkey endemic to the riverine and swamp forests of central Africa. The largest species in the guenon family, it is one of the most widespread arboreal African primates. Aside from size, it can be differentiated from other cercopithecus monkeys by its orange diadem and white beard. Due to its cryptic nature, the species is not well documented in all of its habitats but has shown unique traits such as pair-bonding and aggressive behavior towards other guenons.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
De Brazza’s monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Rhesus macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamadryas baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- King colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mandrill with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crested mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with De Brazza’s monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Woylie
- Sooty mustached bat
- Malayan civet
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Banded palm civet
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo
- Celebes crested macaque
Animals that get as old as a De Brazza’s monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.25 years:
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 22 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Giant panda with 30 years
- Wild boar with 21 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Blue wildebeest with 21.5 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Red kangaroo with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a De Brazza’s monkey
What other animals weight around 5.32 kg (11.73 lbs)?
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon usually reaching 5.57 kgs (12.28 lbs)
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Plains viscacha usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Hairy-nosed otter usually reaching 5.97 kgs (13.16 lbs)
- White-striped dorcopsis usually reaching 5.5 kgs (12.13 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis usually reaching 6.2 kgs (13.67 lbs)
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Lar gibbon usually reaching 5.6 kgs (12.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a De Brazza’s monkey
Also reaching around 51 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Steppe polecat gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Celebes crested macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Diana monkey gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- European wildcat gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Mona monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Margay gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)