How many baby Eastern lesser bamboo lemurs are in a litter?
A Eastern lesser bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 141 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 45 grams (0.1 lbs) and measure 15.7 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Lemuridae family (genus: Hapalemur). An adult Eastern lesser bamboo lemur grows up to a size of 33.5 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 eastern lesser bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus), also known as the gray bamboo lemur, the gray gentle lemur, and the Mahajanga lemur is a small lemur endemic to Madagascar, with three known subspecies. As its name suggests, the eastern lesser bamboo lemur feeds mainly on bamboo. The lemurs of the genus Hapalemur have more manual dexterity and hand–eye coordination than most lemurs. They are vertical climbers and jump from stalk to stalk in thick bamboo forests.
Other animals of the family Lemuridae
Eastern lesser bamboo lemur is a member of the Lemuridae, as are these animals:
- Common brown lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-headed lemur weighting around 2.4 kilograms (5.29 lbs)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crowned lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bamboo lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur weighting around 1.62 kilograms (3.57 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tana River mangabey
- Hippopotamus
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Bush vlei rat
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Black-tailed hutia
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Nilgai
- Northern common cuscus
- Natterer’s bat
Animals that get as old as a Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.08 years:
- Cougar with 20 years
- Red river hog with 20 years
- European hedgehog with 14 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 19.25 years
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Steenbok with 14 years
- Sable with 15 years
- North American beaver with 15 years
- Red-handed tamarin with 15.33 years
- Risso’s dolphin with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
What other animals weight around 936 grams (2.06 lbs)?
- Red-tailed sportive lemur weighting 763 grams
- David’s echymipera weighting 817 grams
- Western quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Black-footed ferret weighting 907 grams
- Hooded skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey weighting 802 grams
- Rock cavy weighting 800 grams
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Northern sportive lemur weighting 760 grams
- Cuban solenodon weighting 806 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Also reaching around 33.5 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Black flying squirrel gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Narrow-striped mongoose gets as big as 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Epixerus gets as big as 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-faced saki gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Kodkod gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel gets as big as 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit gets as big as 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)