How many baby Diana monkeys are in a litter?
A Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 468 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Diana monkey grows up to a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″).
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 Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey. The term “old-world monkey” refers to the family of monkeys known as Cercopithecoidea and the Diana monkey is only 1 species out of the 148 that are a part of this family.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Diana monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- Angolan talapoin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stump-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Diana monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Plains viscacha
- Highland brush mouse
- Spectacled flying fox
- Harpy fruit bat
- Pennant’s colobus
- Short-beaked echidna
- Natal red rock hare
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Mauritian tomb bat
Animals that get as old as a Diana monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 37.25 years:
- Drill (animal) with 33.33 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with 44 years
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with 34.25 years
- Common brown lemur with 37 years
- Stump-tailed macaque with 30 years
- Indian flying fox with 31.33 years
- Red-faced spider monkey with 37.75 years
- Pileated gibbon with 36 years
- Hamadryas baboon with 40 years
- American black bear with 32 years
Animals with the same weight as a Diana monkey
What other animals weight around 4.36 kg (9.62 lbs)?
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Arctic fox usually reaching 3.58 kgs (7.89 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- European hare usually reaching 3.82 kgs (8.42 lbs)
- Bat-eared fox usually reaching 4.07 kgs (8.97 lbs)
- South American coati usually reaching 3.78 kgs (8.33 lbs)
- Short-beaked echidna usually reaching 4.5 kgs (9.92 lbs)
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 4.16 kgs (9.17 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Diana monkey
Also reaching around 47 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bonnet macaque gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Robust cottontail gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Omilteme cottontail gets as big as 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lesser grison gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit gets as big as 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)