How many baby Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs are in a litter?
A Fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus medius) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 61 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Cheirogaleus). An adult Fat-tailed dwarf lemur grows up to a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 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.
The fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus medius), also known as the lesser dwarf lemur, western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, or spiny forest dwarf lemur, is endemic to Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Fat-tailed dwarf lemur is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur weighting only 33 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting only 70 grams
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-brown mouse lemur weighting only 58 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting only 68 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Chacoan peccary
- Feathertail glider
- Big deer mouse
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
- Temminck’s striped mouse
- Otter civet
- Red-handed tamarin
- Southern African spiny mouse
Animals that get as old as a Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19.25 years:
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 22 years
- Egyptian mongoose with 20 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- European rabbit with 18 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
- Snow leopard with 18 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
What other animals weight around 197 grams (0.43 lbs)?
- Large mosaic-tailed rat weighting 209 grams
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting 158 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat weighting 218 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco weighting 179 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco weighting 210 grams
- Golden angwantibo weighting 235 grams
- Senegal bushbaby weighting 216 grams
- Nectomys squamipes weighting 185 grams
- Little ground squirrel weighting 174 grams
- Shipton’s mountain cavy weighting 185 grams
Animals with the same size as a Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
Also reaching around 22.5 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Calabar angwantibo gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Palawan montane squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-haired rat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky-footed woodrat gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Numbat gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mexican gray squirrel gets as big as 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ornate flying fox gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)