How many baby Diademed sifakas are in a litter?
A Diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 152 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 134 grams (0.3 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Indridae family (genus: Propithecus). An adult Diademed sifaka grows up to a size of 50.1 cm (1′ 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 diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), or diademed simpona, is an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar. Along with the indri, this species is one of the two largest living lemurs, with an average weight of 6.5 kg and a total adult length of approximately 105 centimetres (41 inches), half of which is its tail. Russell Mittermeier, one of the contemporary authorities on lemurs, describes the diademed sifaka as “one of the most colorful and attractive of all the lemurs”, having a long and silky coat. P. diadema is also known by the Malagasy names simpona, simpony and ankomba joby. The term “diademed sifaka” is also used as a group species designation formerly encompassing four distinct subspecies.
Other animals of the family Indridae
Diademed sifaka is a member of the Indridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern woolly lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-crowned sifaka weighting around 3.53 kilograms (7.78 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indri with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Diademed sifaka
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sheep
- Earless water rat
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Greater glider
- Red-bellied titi
- Spotted bat
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Diademed sifaka
What other animals weight around 6.58 kg (14.5 lbs)?
- Javan surili usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Bush dog usually reaching 6.32 kgs (13.93 lbs)
- Müeller’s gibbon usually reaching 5.92 kgs (13.05 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon usually reaching 5.4 kgs (11.9 lbs)
- Raffles’ banded langur usually reaching 7.02 kgs (15.48 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Asian golden cat usually reaching 7.73 kgs (17.04 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey usually reaching 7.09 kgs (15.63 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur usually reaching 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Diademed sifaka
Also reaching around 50.1 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Ring-tailed lemur gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ground pangolin gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Purple-faced langur gets as big as 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)